Florida Couple Arrested For $1 Million Fake Lottery Ticket To Scam Officials
A Florida couple tried hand over a fake lottery ticket worth $1 million. Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones did their best to trick lottery officials into giving them a huge payday. The couple took two torn scratch-off tickets spliced them together to form one winning lottery ticket.
Couple Arrested For $1 Million Fake Lottery Ticket:
According to the Pensacola News Journal, the tickets were ripped and “carefully pieced together” to show the $1 million prize winner. Apparently, the ticket was not fooling anyone and was obviously fake to lottery officials. They sliced both tickets horizontally, with one ticket on top and the other on the bottom. Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said, “I don’t think this is gonna be a made-for-TV movie type of situation because, uh, it was clear to the lottery officials — and obviously clear to us — that she had taken two tickets with different, you know, one side had one serial number, the other side had the other serial number on it.”
After Enders, 36, sent in her fake lottery ticket to the Florida Lottery, her and Jones, 32, drove to meet with a lottery agent. They expected to accept a large check but instead they were both arrested and questioned separately. Enders excuse was that the ticket fell out of her car and it got rained on. Afterwards she tried to scratch it before it was dry and taped it together so it wouldn’t be destroyed. She had goals of using the money to open a salon.
Jones on the other hand said they both found two halves of a wet ticket while taking a walk. He snitched on his girlfriend saying she knew that both tickets did not match. “The two were arrested and charged with forgery/alteration of a lottery ticket with intent to defraud, passing a forged/altered state lottery ticket and larceny—grand theft of $100,000 or more.”
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