A Florida couple is facing criminal charges after they reportedly tried cashing in a fraudulent $1 million lottery ticket.
DeFuniak Springs residents Dakota Jones and Kira Enders reportedly ripped up two 500 Times The Cash scratch-off tickets and made a new one by taping pieces from both together, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. They then brought the bogus ticket to lottery officials, saying it had been damaged when it fell out of their car during a rainstorm, sheriff’s officials say. “Enders stated that she tried to scratch the ticket before it was dry and it started falling apart so she taped it so it wouldn’t get more ruined than it already was,” a sheriff’s report reads. Jones, on the other hand, told authorities they’d found the wet ticket on the ground, sheriff’s officials say.
Enders and Jones have each been charged with presenting a forged state lottery ticket, forging a lottery ticket with the intent to defraud, and grand theft of $100,000 or more, documents reveal. If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, per Florida law.
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Florida Couple Accused Of Trying To Cash In Fake $1M Lottery Ticket
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