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Man charged with forging lottery ticket claims it was a jokeNews Story
A Pennsylvania man charged with forging a winning lottery ticket in October was only playing a joke on a coworker, his defense attorney said today. That joke, attorney Stephen Ellwood said, was merely that (James A. Koons Jr.) wanted someone to find it and think it was real. And that someone Brian Scott Miller, 34, of Pheasant Drive South in North Middleton Township now faces charges after he allegedly found the ticket at the Middlesex Township trucking firm where he worked and tried
Apr 6, 2006, 11:42 am - Lottery News

Police arrest lottery ticket thiefNews Story
A routine audit of lottery tickets conducted by the Texas Lottery Commission showed that more than $37,000 in scratch-off tickets were missing from a Flower Mound convenience store. The tickets were missing from a Diamond Shamrock station in the 220 block of Long Prairie Road. Police later arrested a store employee, Joanna Diaz, on charges of theft.
Mar 22, 2006, 9:36 am - Lottery News

Man arrested after redeeming stolen lottery ticketsNews Story
A 24-year-old Michigan man was arrested this week on a charge that he stole more than $20,000 worth of lottery tickets from his employer and redeemed the winning tickets at businesses across Wayne County. State Police said Jerry Allen Gallup worked at Hazel's Party Store in Taylor, where he was accused of taking Michigan Lottery Instant Game Tickets. The winning tickets were cashed in at more than 30 locations in Wayne County, police said. Police said Gallup confessed to the theft, an
Mar 16, 2006, 6:52 am - Lottery News

464 gaming machines seized in S.C.News Story
Businesses say despite payouts, games aren't illegal gambling South Carolina authorities seized 464 gaming machines and computers Thursday from 13 York County businesses accused of hosting illegal gambling just over the N.C. state line. Drawing attention were an increasing number of Internet cafes where customers played video slots with prepaid cards. Business owners defended them as legal sweepstakes. Authorities, however, said the cafes, which pay out money to winners, are thinly veile
Mar 3, 2006, 3:43 pm - Lottery News

Iowa couple arrested in lottery fraudNews Story
A Waverly, Iowa, couple is facing criminal charges for allegedly cashing counterfeit lottery tickets. Lottery officials allege Scott and Jennifer Brandhorst redeemed the forged TouchPlay tickets at a Hy-Vee store in Cedar Rapids, one for $300 and another for $325. Cedar Rapids police reportedly matched the couple with a surveillance video. Investigators arrested the pair as they were leaving their home at 1868 Dakota Ave. in Waverly on Monday. They were taken to the Linn County Jail. T
Feb 8, 2006, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Post member turns up the heat on the Hoosier LotteryNews Story
Is the Indiana Lottery vulnerable to inside tampering? By Kevin Leininger Fort Wayne News Sentinel You'd think Jim Grimes would be happy. After all, the retired Noble County engineer, whose concerns about the integrity of the Hoosier Lottery were the subject of a column in June 2004, helped spark an investigation that led to three indictments in an alleged million-dollar scam. But, if anything, Grimes is even more frustrated than he was when we first talked nearly two years ago - even
Jan 31, 2006, 6:06 pm - Lottery News

Penn. woman Loses $20,000 In Jamaican Lottery ScamNews Story
A Bethlehem woman was defrauded of nearly $20,000 throughout January after she was led to believe she'd won the Jamaican lottery.Sue Turnback, 68, said a woman calling herself Carrinne Campbell called her Jan. 4, police said. Campbell said Turnback won $2.2 million in the Jamaican lottery but had to mail $1,000 to Jamaica to process the winnings. Turnback sent the money in an international money order the same day. Turnback received another call later from a man calling himself Everett Montaque,
Jan 31, 2006, 7:03 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner pleads innocent to ID theft, fraud chargesNews Story
A woman accused of using a stolen credit card to purchase a $1 million lottery ticket pleaded innocent this week to charges of identity theft and fraud.Christina Elizabeth Goodenow, 38, of Central Point was arrested after police determined that she purchased the winning scratch-it ticket on Oct. 9 using a credit card that belonged to her dead mother-in-law, Inez Cornett.Goodenow collected $33,500, the first installment of her winnings, from Oregon Lottery headquarters in Salem before her arrest.
Jan 12, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery fires officialNews Story
The chief of the Springfield office of the state Lottery has been terminated from his $71,000-a-year job, highlighting the Lottery's lagging record on minority hiring.Luis Garcia, 48, of Springfield said he was called into the Lottery's Braintree headquarters on Oct. 20 and told by former state Rep. Joseph C. Sullivan, the lottery's executive director, that he was being terminated as of Nov. 5 as assistant director and regional manager in Springfield. Garcia, a Puerto Rican, said he was the only
Dec 5, 2005, 7:11 am - Lottery News

Connecticut woman steals lottery winnings from purseNews Story
A 40-year-old Bridgeport, Connecticut, woman was charged Tuesday with stealing a woman's lottery ticket winnings at Shaw's Supermarket in Fairfield, police said.Ronice Turner, of Han Avenue, is charged with fifth-degree larceny in the October incident.She turned herself in at headquarters after learning there was a warrant for her arrest, police said. She was released on a promise to appear Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court.The victim left her purse at Shaw's on Oct. 23, and Turner, a former
Dec 2, 2005, 10:30 am - Lottery News