A Florida couple is facing multiple felony charges after they attempted to fake a million dollar winning scratch-off lottery ticket.
According to law enforcement, the man and woman manipulated a $50 dollar scratch-off ticket, which was actually two tickets pieced together sloppily. Officials said there was a clear tear in the center of the ticket, making the fraudulent lottery ticket obvious.
After attempting to turn in the fake $1 million winner by submitting it to the Florida Lottery office in Pensacola, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office took action.
“Each of those tickets were ripped horizontally and then carefully pieced together to become one fraudulently altered ticket using the top half of one of the actual tickets and the bottom half of the other,” deputies noted in the report. “That fraudulently altered ticket now visually shows that it is a one-million-dollar prize winner.”
36-year-old Kira Lee Enders was arrested in Walton County on these charges out of Escambia County:
- Grand Theft more than $100,000
- Present Altered State Lottery Ticket
- Alter Lottery Ticket with Intent to Defraud
32-year-old Dakota Jones was arrested in Escambia County on charges of:
- Principal to Grand Theft more than $100,000
- Principal to Present Altered State Lottery Ticket
- Principal to Alter Lottery Ticket with Intent to Defraud
