3 face charges in Indiana Lottery scam

Comment #16

DELotteryPlyr — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:35:06 GMT

Agreed, this was very strange. But from the lotteries point of view they had a 'client' which went inactive. Then the 'client' contacts them and says please re-activate. But, once inactive wouldn't the lottery say 'please send back all scratch off's'? And have a list of what they sent them which were not active? At least that is what you would think they would have. So maybe they are too stupid to TRACK things like this

Comment #15

Technut — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:12:47 GMT

Cute orange jumpsuits that match. Just what the greedy fools needed.

Comment #14

cbr$ — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:55:56 GMT

Greed, is something . This stack of twenty tickets they steal had exact 15 tickets missing out of it. A complete stack is 50 ticket. Had it been a full stack , another charge of Grand Theft, would been add to this list. I can't wait to see what happen in this case.

Comment #13

Crazy Wombat — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:58:59 GMT

In my earlier post ... I was just assuming they had decided to get back into the store to check all the remaining lottery tickets for any winners. I don't see how they could know there was a big winner in one of those books but they got lucky and scratched one off ... well, they thought they were lucky at that point.

I guess the lottery hadn't come yet to remove the terminal and tickets.

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Comment #12

cashflow1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:33:00 GMT

OK..why was the ticket fraudulent? Because they owned the store and cashed in a winning ticket from the store? Are cashiers and store owners able to somehow figure out which tickets are winners? I know I heard of cashiers determining winning tickets by using a needle or pin and making a straight line over the barcode then scanning. The winning tickets they keep and the losing tickets they put back and those purchasing tickets cant see that there is a straight line across barcode.

I also read

Comment #11

Teddi — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 02:04:48 GMT

If I have this right, but for the executor, they would never have been found out? I don't think the Parsleys were the dingbats, here. I think that honor belongs to the lottery commission. A previously deactivated terminal has a reactivation request right before a $2 million ticket gets redeemed? Okay, maybe the lottery chose to overlook one suspicious event. But how about the surname of the winner matching the name of the store? How do two suspicious coincidences not get looked into?

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Comment #10

HaveABall — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 01:24:46 GMT

, Crazy Wombat, these questions will lead to a few problems [new internal procedures to be written] for the Indiana Lottery Headquarter's employee(s). Death certificates, and official Administrators/Executors of estates, are supposed to be respected -- NOTHING done without their prior written permission (unless that is what the article's accused forgery felony is reflective of

Comment #9

Crazy Wombat — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:41:33 GMT

That's true ... I didn't think about a large winning lottery ticket would have to taken to lottery headquarters.

It seems to me that they must have been back in the store without the executor's knowledge going through all the tickets and came across this large winner ... there must have also been other small winning tickets that could be cashed at other places ... $20, $50, $100 and so forth.

They asked for the terminal to be reactivated ... probably without the executor knowing about it.... [ More ]

Comment #8

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:34:03 GMT

Well they weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Comment #7

KY Floyd — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:21:58 GMT

Why not take the ticket to another place to cash?

The only place you cash a ticket that big is at a lottery office. I'm assuming that it was a scratcher that had to be activated by the lottery retailer it was sent to in order to sell it. Because the owner died and the store was closed there was a bunch of unsold stock, including lottery tickets. Depending on how the lottery actually charges retailers for lottery tickets the unactivated ticket still belonged to the lottery and the store didn... [ More ]

Comment #6

temptustoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:11:51 GMT

they look pretty spiffy in those jump suits. I hope they send them away for a long long time. We need huge penalties for CHEATERS

Comment #5

haymaker — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:35:14 GMT

LOL

The family that preys together, stays together...in county

Comment #4

eddessaknight — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:20:15 GMT

Avaritia facit bardus

- Greed makes you stupid

And how bout's the legitimate patrons who were robbed of their opportunity to buy this winning ticket?

Fortes Fortuna Juvat

Eddessa_Knight

Comment #3

Crazy Wombat — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:41:29 GMT

Parts of this story are confusing or read stupid to me in relation to the people that were arrested.

This part ...

Because the family was planning to sell the store, they did not renew their license to sell lottery tickets, and the terminal went inactive, court documents say. But Jackie Parsley asked the Hoosier Lottery to reactivate the terminal shortly before the ticket was redeemed, documents say.

Why not take the ticket to another place to cash? ... so they wanted the terminal to

Comment #2

noise-gate — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:39:19 GMT

Oh Ashlee..You gotta love those Orange Jumpsuits..

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:57:04 GMT

I just love these knuckleheads.

3 face charges in Indiana Lottery scam

Lottery Post — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:38:58 GMT

Three people redeemed a fraudulent Hoosier Lottery ticket worth $2 million, buying a home and several vehicles with the money before police caught on to the scam, court documents allege.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced in a news conference Thursday that two men and a woman all relatives are facing 15 criminal counts in connection with a lottery fraud scheme that raked in more than $1.1 million.

Ashlee Parsley, Jackie Parsley II and Joseph Parsley face theft, forgery and mone... [ More ]