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Seven arrested in underground lottery stingNews Story
Seven people are facing felony bookmaking charges after authorities say they were operating an illegal lottery out of four markets in San Pablo and Richmond, California. Authorities say the lottery was broken up after a sting operation led by the California Lottery's Security and Law Enforcement Division. Investigators say the seven suspects sold homemade tickets to buyers who were placing bets on numbers in an actual California Lottery game. Lottery spokesman Bill Ainsworth says though
Jun 11, 2010, 8:08 am - Lottery News

$1 million Powerball winner arrestedNews Story
A Marshalltown, Iowa, man who won $1 million in the Powerball lottery last year has been charged with supplying alcohol to a minor and prescription drug possession. Marshalltown Police Assistant Chief Brian Batterson says Ricky Rushton was arrested early Tuesday after officers responded to a complaint about underage drinking at his business, Memories Banquet Hall. Batterson says Wednesday that officers found an underage employee at the business who was intoxicated. Rushton was arrested
Jun 9, 2010, 6:59 pm - Lottery News

Wash. man accused of stealing $100K of lottery ticketsNews Story
The manager of a Winlock, Washington, store stole thousands of dollars in scratch tickets and hid evidence of the thefts, some of which were caught on camera, Lewis County authorities said. Prosecutors said Benjamin Macy, 51, repeatedly stole $20 scratch tickets that cost Cedar Village IGA and the Washington Lottery Commission more than $100,000 over several years, the Chronicle reported. Police said Macy would cash in the winning tickets. State lottery records showed that among the winnin
Jun 3, 2010, 6:35 am - Lottery News

Store clerk gets prison term for Ohio lottery ticket theftNews Story
Deborah Strong admits she is a habitual thief whose gambling addiction has resulted in her stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employers over the last decade. For her latest theft more than $500,000 in Ohio Lottery scratch-off tickets from a Kroger store she was sent Tuesday to prison for the maximum sentence of five years. She pleaded guilty to the charge of aggravated theft last month. The sentence was imposed by Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Dennis Helmick, who
Jun 2, 2010, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Alabama woman gets money back from lottery scamNews Story
An Alabama woman recently got $16,800 back after a joint U.S. and Canadian investigation into fraudulent telemarketers who represented themselves as lottery officials. The Alabama resident, whose name was not released, got her money back on May 14, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A multi-agency U.S-Canada initiative called Project COLT was responsible for helping return the money. Many variations exist on the lottery scams, according to
May 24, 2010, 10:56 am - Lottery News

Clerk arrested in undercover Lottery stingNews Story
Investigator was paid $50 for ticket worth $20,000 An employee of the City Limits Deli Mart in Sumner and her companion got an unpleasant surprise Monday when they traveled to Washington's Lottery headquarters to claim what they thought was a $20,000 prize. Olympia police arrested the two women for allegedly trying to claim the prize through fraud or deception, according to a Lottery spokeswoman. The alleged fraud occurred Thursday, when an undercover Lottery employee posing as a custom
Apr 21, 2010, 7:22 am - Lottery News

Lottery scam victim dies scarredNews Story
Even in the last months of her life, Lorraine Teicht could not fully trust people. She could never get over how three of her workmates had once turned on her. Suspicious that she had filched a $5.7 million 6/49 lottery ticket that rightfully belonged to all four, they had hired a private eye to see if her lifestyle had dramatically changed. I could not trust them after they came to my house and accused me of stealing the winnings, Teicht wrote on March 11. I still do not feel relax
Apr 16, 2010, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Other people involved in lottery winner's slaying, attorney saysNews Story
Though Dorice Donegan Dee Dee Moore is the only person accused in the slaying of Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, there were other people involved, according to her lawyer. From my review of the probable cause affidavit and my investigator's review, I see plenty of room for further investigation to develop evidence that Mrs. Moore was not involved in the murder or not the primary person involved in the murder, said attorney Stephen B. Fisher. He was appointed to represent Moore af
Apr 6, 2010, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania store manager accused in lottery theftsNews Story
The ex-store manager of a Bangor, Pennsylvania, area gas station pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she stole instant lottery tickets that cost the station a little more than $74,000 over three years. While Tolino Fuel Service officials said Michelle Ann Zucal, 39, of Bangor had admitted to stealing lottery tickets, defense attorney Gregory Paglianite tried to raise questions as to how they know Zucal was responsible for the store's entire loss. During sometimes heated exchanges wit
Apr 6, 2010, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Lottery scam victim, 78, becomes scammer, swindles friendsNews Story
Duped friends, neighbors, pastor out of more than $1 million This was the trip that would bring them the jackpot. Doris Siegel and a friend boarded a plane to Amsterdam in August 2008 for a $1 million payout, money that would finally prove that the Nigerian lottery she'd told friends and neighbors about was no scam. Siegel and her friend met with five men who called themselves Nigerian businessmen, authorities said. They were taken to the basement of a building and told they would need
Mar 30, 2010, 8:28 am - Lottery News