Florida men charged with lottery ticket theft

Comment #13

wizeguy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:56:59 GMT

Odd amounts for bail... wonder if they can cough up the extra $3

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luckieStarr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:37:30 GMT

It's a shame that someone missed out on buying a $20,000 winning ticket. I would like to know if they stolen a unopened pack of tickets. I have seen people buy $100 worth of scatch offs...maybe volume has its own reward. Not stealing tickets.

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jusus27360 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:47:35 GMT

not bright at all

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myzeus — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:40:38 GMT

With the way the economy is now, times are tough. Some people are just going nuts. What is this world coming to? I don't like theives at all.

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LckyLary — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:46:40 GMT

Picray is an anagram of Piracy ... sometimes I find discard tickets worth up to 10 or 15 dollars. If I find one worth 20K I would turn it in under condition that if no one claims it and it's genuinely lost then it's mine. At least I'd be in the News and probably mentioned on here. It would mean more to me to see its rightful owner get it back and the joy it would bring to their life. (no I don't believe in just giving everyone 20K because that's not quite the same thing.)

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charmed7 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:29:59 GMT

i found some tickets on the ground yesterday, with 215. they were for

the evening drawing. WOW, how scary, I'm glad they were not stolen

sad that 804 fell instead 215.

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Todd — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:19:40 GMT

Yeah, makes us all feel smarter.

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MaddMike51 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:36:24 GMT

I just love reading about stupid thieves.It starts my day off with a laugh

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diamondpalace — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:20:58 GMT

Don't play with fire.

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JordanT1021 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:38:32 GMT

let's say after the man stole the tickets, he threw them in the trash.. I walk by and see them in the trash sometime after... i scratch them off and then see that I won. when i go to the lottery office I get arrested. how believeable would it be that I found them in the trash

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GamerMom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:37:05 GMT

this is true. He should have known the tickets were numbered anyway. if he cashed in anything over $500 he was asking to be arrested by going to district

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ThatScaryChick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:35:26 GMT

I don't think it would have mattered who cashed the tickets. I think the police knew the tickets had been stolen. My guess is, if the thieves had gotten an innocent bystander to cash the ticket, that that person would have been charged as well.

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GamerMom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:39:44 GMT

How smart do you have to be to steal tickets and then go to the DISTRICT OFFICE YOURSELF and claim a ticket?!

I wonder what will happen to the tickets he stole; will they be reprinted

Florida men charged with lottery ticket theft

Lottery Post — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:28:41 GMT

Two Jacksonville men are facing felony charges over a stolen lottery ticket that was redeemed for $20,000, according to a police report.

Kenneth R. Hayes, 55, and James C. Picray, 47, were charged Friday with dealing in stolen property, according to police records. Picray was also charged with grand theft, according to the records.

An arrest report said several books of lottery tickets were stolen since last month from the Kangaroo Express store at 5700 Philips Highway.

The report said