Pair caught trying to cash in fake $100K scratch-off ticket, authorities say
Updated: 2:13 PM EST Jan 6, 2020
Marcus Hunter
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SOURCE: Flowood Police Dept.
Two people are accused of trying to cash in a doctored $100,000 scratch-off lottery ticket, Mississippi authorities said.The would-be crooks used super glue to attach winning numbers to a losing ticket and tried to cash it in Monday at the Mississippi Lottery office in Flowood, less than 10 miles from Jackson. Lottery officials called Flowood police and stalled the culprits until officers arrived and arrested them, authorities said.Lottery officials released a photocopy of the ticket to 16 WAPT News.The names and charges of those arrested were not immediately released.Trying to cash a counterfeit lottery ticket is a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
FLOWOOD, Miss. —
Two people are accused of trying to cash in a doctored $100,000 scratch-off lottery ticket, Mississippi authorities said.
The would-be crooks used super glue to attach winning numbers to a losing ticket and tried to cash it in Monday at the Mississippi Lottery office in Flowood, less than 10 miles from Jackson.
Lottery officials called Flowood police and stalled the culprits until officers arrived and arrested them, authorities said.
Lottery officials released a photocopy of the ticket to 16 WAPT News.
The names and charges of those arrested were not immediately released.
Trying to cash a counterfeit lottery ticket is a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
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