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May 8, 2004, 1:59 pm (5 comments)
Carlos Sola decided to keep his job after he won a Georgia Lottery jackpot $1,000 a week for life.
His occupation? Burglar.
In April 2002, Sola was awaiting trial for stealing $40,000 in coins and jewelry from an Austell home when he hit it big in the Win For Life scratch-off game.
Cobb County Superior Court Judge S. Lark Ingram took note of his good fortune and allowed a plea deal that included three years in prison, provided the first $40,000 of his winnings went to repay his victims.
So when Sola's first annual payment came last May $34,840 after taxes he was behind bars and didn't get a dime.
He got out on probation in August but returned to his old line of work. He was arrested in December for the burglary of a Smyrna home.
Back in prison until at least 2005, Sola is due his second annual lottery check this month: $34,840, less $5,160 for restitution from his earlier conviction. He can keep the rest.
"It's funny," his attorney Henry Thompson said Friday, "but it's also really sad."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just goes to prove, you can put a crook in jail and you can take a crook out of jail, but you can't make a crook go straight. Some people just enjoy steeling and acting bad.
RJOh
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He better be careful-instead of having cash for life he could get jail for life if he keeps it up. What a waste. That ticket could have been bought by someone else who would have appreciated winning that money.
this is always the same storie, winner are (almost) people how not diserve it.
look this guy whitekar I think is is name, big words that he will gave to te church, and........... now he spent money with prostitutes on horse tracts, convisted for assault, etc, etc,...... but he is a church man, halleluya, mother f....
I think I deserve to win the lottery. I am a mother of 4. All of my children have different fathers. My last two I don't even know who their dad's are. My last is bi-racial. I am unemployed and need some money because the roots in my dyed blond hair are showing. Gosh, I sound bad! Truthfully, I am a teacher. I am curently not working because the children I have adopted have special health needs. I have worked hard all of my life and gave my children all the love I have. If I don't win I hope someone like me does. Good luck eveyone! and God bless.