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Woman gets 30 days for stealing lottery ticketsNews Story
Used scratch ticket codes to pick out winners A Heath, Ohio, woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of community control on Monday after she admitted to stealing lottery tickets she knew were winners. Courtney L. Carson, 37, was found guilty of grand theft, a fourth-degree felony, after confessing to scanning lottery tickets' bar codes to see if they were winners while working at Heath Carryout between Jan. 15 and April 14, 2006. Carson, last known address 48 Carey Lane,
May 16, 2007, 9:20 am - Lottery News

How a lottery thief got away with the crimeNews Story
When backpackers Caroline Day and Mei-Yin Lee discovered they had won Lotto they rang home from the newsagency. It was after one in the morning in Britain but Ms. Day wanted to share the news with her mother. During that joyous phone call, they calculated they had won about 220,000 (US$300,000). But three weeks later when Dr. Lee rang NSW Lotteries to inquire about the money, a bold fraud by an employee at the newsagency came to light and it would be another 27 months before the pair
May 7, 2007, 2:53 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner shortchanged by storeNews Story
Man paid $1,500 on $4,000 scratch ticket The lottery machines and scratch tickets were pulled from Kirsch Liquors in Worcester, Massachusetts, last month, after a man was scammed there when he received only $1,500 on a $4,000 winning scratch ticket, a state Lottery Commission official said. The Lottery Commission will file a decision by the end of the month on whether to suspend the store's lottery license for 30 days or indefinitely. Damaso Vasquez told Lottery Commission authorities
May 3, 2007, 7:43 am - Lottery News

Man charged in lottery ticket theft caseNews Story
If you bought a lottery ticket at Valley Supreme Liquors in Pine Bush, New York, and lost, you might want to blame the clerk who sold it to you. He might have stolen a jackpot meant for you. While Michael M. Ciarcia worked at the liquor store, he stole more than $40,000 worth of lottery tickets a few of which were winners, according to state police in Middletown. Ciarcia, who worked at the store for six months, was arrested last week and charged with second-degree burglary and third
Apr 25, 2007, 5:03 am - Lottery News

Lotto tickets lead cops to murder suspectNews Story
Lottery tickets left at the scene of a double slaying at a Southwest Side grocery store in 2005 have led Chicago police to the suspected killer, police said today. Timothy Fountain, 36, of the 12700 block of South Morgan Street, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the course of a felony in the Aug. 4, 2005, slayings of Graciela Rodriguez, 38, and Nicholas Guerrero, 74, police spokesman Pat Camden said. Police believe Fountain shot the two during a hold-up inside Magg
Apr 13, 2007, 7:11 pm - Lottery News

Retailers luckier than expected, Atlantic Lotto saysNews Story
Could massive theft and/or deception by retailers be the reason? Lottery ticket sellers won 10 times more often than statistically they should have over the last six years, the Atlantic Lottery Corp. said Wednesday. So far, the review hasn't shown any wrongdoing by retailers in the four Atlantic provinces, an official said. Can I statistically explain why retailers are winning 10 times more? No, I can't, and I'm not going to sit here and speculate as to why, said Mike Randall, a corp
Mar 16, 2007, 11:54 pm - Lottery News

Cops bust 2 men who stole 3,000 lottery ticketsNews Story
Two men who allegedly made off with 3,000 lottery tickets from a Chinatown, California, liquor store are in custody, along with a woman accused of trying to cash some of the tickets, thanks to a school principal who recognized two of the suspects as the parents of one of his students, police reported. The woman, who is not suspected of taking part in the Feb. 20 robbery, allegedly visited a liquor store in Highland Park the next day in an unsuccessful attempt to try to cash some of the stolen
Mar 15, 2007, 10:33 am - Lottery News

S.C woman facing 3 charges of lottery fraudNews Story
A South Carolina convenience store employee turned herself in to police Monday on allegations she stole dozens of scratch-off lottery tickets from work last month and then cashed in the winners, officials said. Tashawn I. Ealey, 23, of the 300 block of Jehossee Drive in Aiken, is charged with three counts of lottery fraud. Detective Billy Royster, Aiken Public Safety, said the subject stole the tickets, each valued at $10, and then collected the money for the winners. The store, howe
Mar 6, 2007, 7:19 am - Lottery News

After alleged lottery ticket theft, store banned from ticket salesNews Story
An Ohio convenience store is banned from selling lottery tickets for a month, after the owner and an employee stole part of a Warren woman's jackpot, according to police reports. Rita Astolfi's claim that she won big on the Cash Spectacular scratch-off, but walked away with only a portion of her prize, landed the owner of the West Market Street store and one of his employees in court. They are accused of stealing $400 of a $1,000 payoff from the 30-year-old Ward Street N.W. woman before event
Feb 28, 2007, 12:03 pm - Lottery News

Police Looking for Cross-Dressing Lottery Ticket ThiefNews Story
Police are following the trail of a cross-dressing thief who stole a display case full of lottery tickets from a convenience store in Depew, New York, and was caught in the act on camera. The unusual robbery happened at a Noco station on George Urban Boulevard in Depew. Detectives say a man dressed as a woman walked right up to the counter and walked away with a case full of lottery tickets, $2,000 worth, but what's even more shocking is what happened next. The video shows it clearly.
Feb 13, 2007, 10:00 am - Lottery News