By Todd Northrop
A Lebanon, Oregon, man was arrested after he sent a shooting threat in an e-mail to the Oregon Lottery.
The Oregon State Police said Jason David Ouellette, 42, was arrested on suspicion of menacing Tuesday afternoon. 5½ hours earlier Ouellette had sent an email to the Lottery's Salem headquarters with "an imminent threat to shoot and kill people," the law enforcement agency said.
Ouellette was jailed in Marion County without incident, troopers said, but was later released from the jail due to overcrowding.
In a message provided by Oregon State Police on Thursday, Ouellette apologized to anyone at the lottery agency frightened by the shooting threat and says he plans to get help for his gambling addiction.
"I was angry at myself after losing a substantial amount of money playing a lottery machine the previous day," said Ouellette, 42. "I have struggled with gambling for many years."
The police did not specify how much money Ouellette lost.
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I can see how you can get lost in the gambling thing real easy.. with all the high jackpots ..easy money..sometimes you just have to step back and breath..it is a scary world out there ..but it still didn't give him the right to scare people like this
People are desperate and have very little nothing these days. Sad about what is being reported. Once the gambling hotline finds out someone's info and they are on that list that is it.
"I played, didn't win big, so I'm going to blow somebody away."
I wonder what his LP name is.
At least he admitted his problem, usually it's not the problem gambler* that goes to GA at first (or any such org.) it's a family member or friend that says, "So and so has really got a problem."
*Known in Vegas as degenerate gambler, or just degenerate.
Thank You California Lottery Commission on keeping those machines out of our State.
We live by laws and rules that we impose on each other. We do not need more problem gamblers.
Good one Hearsetrax lol.
Maybe its Rdgrnr???
Wait a minute music*; I played your lottery @ S. Lake Tahoe, Ca one of your lottery machines---and everyone knows the company that put it there! (Had sent them a message before we went out there in blizzard capital USA in March--they said YES).
but the few of us know when to leave well enough alone, this is the other example of those that ain't figured it out yet
DELotteryPlyr
You're killing me
Bleudog101,
I was thinking that Calif. must have machines just like every other state.
Well music* nobody won Mega Millions up to $375 million...on we plod for another draw.
I am thinking of those machines that are like slot machines. They are very addictive. I hope that Californians are satisfied with the lottery games we have today.
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