Former MD Lottery employee pleads guilty of stealing tickets, cashing winners

Comment #34

sully16 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:11:03 GMT

Good catch

Comment #33

jamella724 — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:53:23 GMT

I hope he gets the punishment he deserved so that no one will do the same. If they needed money they have to work for it. There are some people who has the courage to steal somebody's money but they don't have the courage to face the consequences of their action.

Comment #32

Abdi — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 06:23:30 GMT

good news

Comment #31

happygirl665 — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:45:47 GMT

I totally agree with ya

Comment #30

rdgrnr — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:36:23 GMT

This

Comment #29

NUMONEYNIJAS — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 03:40:08 GMT

What is the agree abt

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rdgrnr — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:10:59 GMT

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helpmewin — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:27:57 GMT

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NUMONEYNIJAS — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:50:02 GMT

I have seen that myself scratching like a dope fein junkie. Don't know if she bought them are is being shady. She was squat down behind the counter hiding out of the camer view blind spot thoe. So I'm thinking she was being dirty

Comment #25

NUMONEYNIJAS — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:45:13 GMT

don't know the person btw keeping buying scratchers you will hit it big 1 day

Comment #24

Goteki54 — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:35:32 GMT

He sure lived up the Maryland Lottery's motto Let Yourself Play . He sure helped himseslf to it, but cheating and stealing doesn't pay.

Comment #23

helpmewin — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:37:36 GMT

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helpmewin — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:36:10 GMT

Comment #21

NYSlugger 777 — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:20:37 GMT

$67,000 in winnings were supposed to go to honest people who BUY not STEAL the tickets for a chance to win. Scratch-offs are already hard enough to win but when ya got someone stealing winning tickets it doesnt make it any easier. It's a shame because if it's going on there, it's going on in a lot of other places too.

I walk into certain stores and sometimes observe the lottery clerks scratching away at tickets. There is no way for me to tell if they have bought the tickets or not, so I some... [ More ]

Comment #20

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:49:19 GMT

You are right I havent heard that since the 70's ya digg

Comment #19

Jon D — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 03:05:38 GMT

Good catch. Someone check his IP.

The ya digg is a dead giveaway, hardly ever hear that expression. I had to go look it up in the Urban Dictionary to see if there were any new meanings I was unaware of. #5 may be appropriate.

Comment #18

jarasan — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:47:30 GMT

We need to riot

Comment #17

rdgrnr — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:34:37 GMT

You sound a lot like hahalotterybans. https://www.lotterypost.com/news/265143/3222436

What a coincidence.

Comment #16

Ronnie316 — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:05:57 GMT

Sometimes all you have to do is disagree with someone and they will do the same thing.

Comment #15

noise-gate — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:53:06 GMT

The reason some of these thieves are not caught right away is because they steal in chunks.A little this week, skip a month, hoping that no one would notice that they have already established a pattern of getting away with it and feeling a sense of entitlement. Its similar to someone who constantly tells lies- it actually gets to a point where they start believing in their own lies and will become militant if anyone disagrees with their lies .

Comment #14

Jon D — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:10:39 GMT

He could have gotten the 67% return with just $500 and below prizes, all anonymous cash transactions.(but still liable for taxes) That is about the expected return at that level for larger scratchers, maybe even a little low. And if he had 1 or 2 $1000 prizes, he could've done one of those deals with a shady clerk to cash it, and get back $600 for the $1000 win under the table.

Comment #13

NUMONEYNIJAS — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:13:02 GMT

Thanks I'm a win 1 day without buying a scratcheR

Comment #12

Artist77 — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:05:41 GMT

Well actually attorney Ronnie, that is not correct. There is a range of a recommended PROPOSED SENTENCE by the 2 parties. The judge is not involved in the process at this point. Afterwards, he/she will review this recommendation and agreement and decide on sentencing. The judge does have the option to reject the sentence but cannot modify the terms of a plea bargain.

Comment #11

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:53:02 GMT

Welcome to the LP NUMONEYNIJAS

Comment #10

NUMONEYNIJAS — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:03:54 GMT

thats how it always is they need tpo make the profit. if you buy a 100 DOLLARS OF LOTTTERY TICKETS U WILL probably get like 60 bucks back. not worth the investnment only play for fun make the lotto rich ya digg i am going to win without paying ya digg work the system

Comment #9

NUMONEYNIJAS — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:56:09 GMT

never a good investnment u will 99.9 %of the time lose way more then you will ever win suckers like lotto freaks are just pipe dreaming

Comment #8

RedStang — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:04:47 GMT

Unless the moron actually filed, i'm surprised there's no Federal charges for not paying taxes. Theres got to be a few good size winners.

Comment #7

HaveABall — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:58:03 GMT

, MDguy. Plus, it still amazes me that these thieving employees are allowed to continue their theft for over 3.5 years (while often even being watched by officials for over one year

Comment #6

MDguy — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:50:06 GMT

I'm glad he was convicted it is difficult enough to win anything good in Maryland without company corruption like this.

Comment #5

duckman — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:10:34 GMT

The tickets were valued at $99,600, and Hantske cashed in winning tickets and collected more than $67,000.

The theft aside and from a statistics point of view, he actually did pretty good for scratch offs, only losing about 1/3rd of the ticket's face value...

Comment #4

mypiemaster — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:38:49 GMT

The lure of easy money. Always the downfall of the weak and the greedy.

Comment #3

Ronnie316 — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:30:16 GMT

Its a good story. Usually the sentence is already outlined in exchange for the guilty plea, but I guess we will have to wait til Sept. 11, to hear the actual verdict and get the new news.

Comment #2

Todd — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:15:08 GMT

Actually, it's not a confirmation, it's new news. The person has pleaded guilty. Previously, in the article from April, they were simply charged, but there was no admission of guilt. (See the link to the previous story embedded in this new article.

Comment #1

Jon D — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:42:00 GMT

Just a confirmation of previous news:

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/259869

Former MD Lottery employee pleads guilty of stealing tickets, cashing winners

Lottery Post — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:33:02 GMT

The office of the Maryland Attorney General said Tuesday a former Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency employee pleaded guilty to theft after stealing thousands of lottery tickets and cashing in winners for $67,000.

Mark Barron Hantske, 59, of Lothian, pleaded guilty in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to two counts of felony theft over $10,000.

Prosecutors say between June 2008 and February 2012, while employed as a lottery sales representative, Hantske stole more than 7,500 scratc... [ More ]