Stolen lottery ticket leads to six felony charges and a winner empty-handed

Comment #14

topmid — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:01:45 GMT

that's what i was thinking. why would you not sign the back of the ticket? why would he not mail it in himself? i believe it tells you on the back exactly where to send it. plus, i don't think i would ever mail in a winning lottery ticket. it could get lost by accident or something. it sucks for him, but he really should've thought this through...

Comment #13

Goteki54 — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:12:40 GMT

The first thing he should have done was endorse the back of the ticket. That would have ended the scam before it started. When it comes to money, it's naive to be trusting.

Comment #12

noise-gate — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:09:08 GMT

True, but Kim is taking these others down with her because of what may have transpired after they cashed the ticket. Perhaps kimmy has a young child at home, the cops telling her to come clean because she could be sentenced up to 15 years, by the time she gets released- her kid may be with child..remember the Ashkar boy? ( l think he got over 12 years).

She may have thrown the crew under the bus because of the pressure.

Comment #11

maringoman — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:28:07 GMT

There is no honor among thieves. One would think that Kimberly would take the fall and save her accomplices since she appears to be the one who started it all. Now the three are going down. Only grandma comes out unscathed.

Comment #10

billionaire2bee — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:32:08 GMT

Why in the world would anybody want someone else to take any kind of possession of a winning lottery ticket?? You really should treat that ticket like its a bag of cash...if you wouldnt let someone hold that bag of cash for you why would you let them hold that ticket?? Gosh people need to think....

Comment #9

noise-gate — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:56:03 GMT

Yeah.

The cops have to look no further than Kimmy. She said according to this report that she helped the TRUE winner in getting it mailed off. Right.

Next thing you know she grabs the ticket and heads home to show her Boyfriend. As we all know, she and her boyfriend probably looked longingly at this ticket and wondered what if .

Do you supposedly think at one point these two said You know kim, we have looked at this ticket far too long, l think we ought to drive by a post office and mai... [ More ]

Comment #8

Pita Maha — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:46:47 GMT

Some people are just naive, trusting old souls, reared in a different era manner, isolated from the big, bad world out there. Glad to see that the parasites were caught.

Comment #7

RJOh — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:21:29 GMT

I learned my lesson. Don't trust nobody. It doesn't matter. You know them, you don't know them; doesn't matter. Don't trust. Money is money, the man said.

You would think he would have learned that long before he was 65. Some people assume people get dumber with age and can be easily fooled out of their money.

Comment #6

RJOh — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:00:36 GMT

I too was once new to playing the lottery but I was never so new that I couldn't read the rules on the back of the play slips.

Comment #5

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:48:13 GMT

Sorry SOB's why would Kimberly take the ticket home to show her boyfriend she knew from the moment the winner showed her the ticket she was going to steal it. As for the brother they sound like the brothers from the TV show Lucky 7 getting his brother caught up in something illegal.

Comment #4

Jerm3462 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:20:14 GMT

Someone dig up the photo of this kimberly chick.

Maybe shes hot and that why the customer trusted.

Im guessing she looks like a strung out junkie though.

Comment #3

hearsetrax — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:06:06 GMT

I am too ..... but I still wonder what the bloomin' onion he was thinking when he thought the clerk was trustable

Comment #2

maringoman — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:01:09 GMT

Maybe he's new to playing the lottery and that is why he didn't know the different ways of claiming. I'm glad these three Kimberly Strand, Justin Brummond and James Shafer will be face responsibility for their actions

Comment #1

RJOh — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:08:44 GMT

I wonder what are the rules for claiming a $10,000 prize in that state. That's the first time I ever heard of giving a $10,000 ticket to a store clerk to mail it in. Nobody is saying he didn't follow the rules.

Stolen lottery ticket leads to six felony charges and a winner empty-handed

Lottery Post — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:50:52 GMT

Two men and one woman from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, are being charged with theft after police said they got caught stealing and claiming a winning $10,000 lottery ticket.

The rightful winner, a 65-year-old Eau Claire man, said he is putting retirement on hold after police said his ticket was stolen by a grocery store employee who was supposed to mail it in.

After buying a winning lottery ticket at Gordy's County Market on Clairemont Avenue and soon turning it in at Mega West, the man, who di... [ More ]