Two arrested for buying lottery tickets with fake money

Comment #9

LckyLary — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:32:31 GMT

It creates a real problem when they print sheets of hundred dollar bills and flood the economy with all this worthless money with nothing to back it.. oh wait, that's what the Government has been doing lately.. can we put *them* in prison, too?

If I were President, I'd give everyone a stimulus of $6 million instead of $600. That would stimulate the economy, right? The price of a quart of milk would go to about $20K but that's your problem.

Comment #8

tntea — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:18:20 GMT

That was a big no no... When will people learn.

It amazes me to see so many people who look for an easy way in life instead of getting educated/employed and go to work...

Comment #7

JAP69 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:02:01 GMT

This story gave me a quick reminder of something years ago.

I was stationed in Germany at the time.

I heard that some of the guys were going out on the town and passing off confederate currency until the locals caught onto what they were receiving as payment.

Comment #6

mylollipop — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:52:48 GMT

If anything, the nuts should have purchased at least twenty tickets. Ha Ha. Might won more! Good they were caught though, in all seriousness. How stupid can you get

Comment #5

maine23 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:28:21 GMT

Wooooow...How long did they think that was gonna go on for....

Comment #4

Sandra Dee — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:52:15 GMT

i guess them running off afterwards really sent up flags! and they're cutting into my potential wins, popo, get 'em

Comment #3

Stack47 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:32:06 GMT

They are on parole so they probably developed this scam while in prison. It looks like they went into a busy store, bought $1 scratch-off or a QP, handed the clerk a bogus $20, pocketed the $19 change, and repeated the process in other stores.

Jurisdiction probably depends on which charges carry the harshest punishments.

Comment #2

ThatScaryChick — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:53:45 GMT

I agree. I thought messing around with counterfeit money was a federal crime anyways.

Comment #1

MaddMike51 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:54:02 GMT

The feds need to step in and give them some real prison time for passing fake money.

Two arrested for buying lottery tickets with fake money

Lottery Post — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:29:59 GMT

New York State Police have charged two men who are on parole in connection with the passage of phony $20 bills for lottery tickets.

Sean Boyle, 21, of Walden, was charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree, a felony, and Christopher Zaorski, 36, of Goshen, was charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and petit larceny, both misdemeanors.

The arrests were the result of a two-month investigation by State Police at Middletown and... [ More ]