A Florida couple has been charged after allegedly creating a fake winning lottery ticket.
佛羅里達(dá)州一對夫婦因涉嫌偽造中獎彩票而被起訴。
Kira Enders, 36, and Dakota Jones, 32, both of Defuniak Springs, Fla., are facing several charges including larceny/grand theft of more than $100,000 and passing a forged/altered state lottery ticket with an intent to defraud, per a booking database for the Escambia County Jail.
36歲的基拉·恩德斯和32歲的達(dá)科塔·瓊斯都來自佛羅里達(dá)州的德夫尼亞克泉。根據(jù)埃斯坎比亞縣監(jiān)獄的記錄數(shù)據(jù)庫,他們面臨著幾項(xiàng)指控,包括盜竊/重大盜竊超過10萬美元,以及偽造/變造州彩票意圖欺詐。
According to Escambia County Sheriff's Office reports obtained by local affiliate station FOX 35 and reports from CBS News Miami, Enders attempted to return what she said was a winning $50 scratch-off ticket from the Florida Lottery game 500X the Cash.
根據(jù)當(dāng)?shù)馗綄匐娕_FOX 35獲得的埃斯坎比亞縣警長辦公室的報告和哥倫比亞廣播公司邁阿密新聞的報道,恩德斯試圖歸還她所說的從佛羅里達(dá)州彩票游戲500X現(xiàn)金中獲得的50美元刮刮樂。
However, authorities told CBS News Miami that the ticket displayed obvious altercations, and what Enders tried to submit to the Florida Lottery was allegedly two tickets "crudely" taped together.
然而,當(dāng)局告訴哥倫比亞廣播公司邁阿密新聞,這張彩票上有明顯的爭執(zhí),恩德斯試圖向佛羅里達(dá)彩票公司提交的是兩張“粗糙”粘在一起的彩票。
"They had an individual that thought that they could crudely take two tickets and put them together and pretend as if they were a million-dollar winner," Escambia Sheriff Chip Simmons told the outlet.
埃斯坎比亞警長奇普·西蒙斯告訴媒體:“有一個人認(rèn)為,他們可以粗略地拿兩張彩票,把它們放在一起,假裝自己是百萬美元的贏家。”
FOX reported that Enders allegedly brought the ticket to a Florida Lottery office in Pensacola on March 1, and officials immediately designated it as a "non-winner." Enders also signed official forms at the time acknowledging that there could be legal consequences if she had tampered with a ticket, according to a report from the Sheriff's Office.
據(jù)福克斯報道,恩德斯據(jù)稱于3月1日將這張彩票帶到彭薩科拉的佛羅里達(dá)州彩票辦公室,官員立即將其指定為“非中獎?wù)?rdquo;。根據(jù)警長辦公室的一份報告,恩德斯當(dāng)時還簽署了官方表格,承認(rèn)如果她篡改了罰單,可能會產(chǎn)生法律后果。
According to the Pensacola News Journal, Special Agent Richard Pisanti later received a call from Enders on March 7 asking about the status of the ticket. The investigator asked her to come to the Florida Lottery office on March 11, and both Enders and Jones, who drove her to the office, were "immediately detained and separated for investigation," per the outlet.
據(jù)《彭薩科拉新聞日報》報道,特工理查德·皮桑蒂后來在3月7日接到恩德斯的電話,詢問這張票的狀態(tài)。調(diào)查人員要求她于3月11日來到佛羅里達(dá)州彩票辦公室,恩德斯和開車送她去辦公室的瓊斯“立即被拘留并分開調(diào)查”。
An affidavit obtained by FOX alleges that Enders and Jones told different stories of how they came across the winning ticket, and that they had taped it together after it was ripped up.
??怂公@得的一份宣誓書稱,恩德斯和瓊斯講述了不同的故事,講述了他們是如何找到中獎彩票的,以及他們在彩票被撕毀后把它粘在一起的。
Enders allegedly asked Pisanti: "What, they don't go together?" per the affidavit, and Jones told the investigator that "they are honest people and they aren't into fraud."
根據(jù)證詞,恩德斯問皮桑蒂:“什么,他們不會在一起嗎?”瓊斯告訴調(diào)查人員,“他們是誠實(shí)的人,他們不會欺詐。”
"Jones advised that he didn't know it was a crime to bring it to the lottery office but it was not their intentions to get over on the lottery," the affidavit reads, per FOX.
據(jù)福克斯報道,證詞中寫道:“瓊斯建議說,他不知道把彩票帶到彩票辦公室是犯罪行為,但他們不是故意要在彩票上過關(guān)。”
Jones was arrested and booked into the Escambia County Jail on April 16, and Enders was booked two days later on April 18.
瓊斯于4月16日被捕并被關(guān)進(jìn)埃斯坎比亞縣監(jiān)獄,恩德斯于兩天后的4月18日被捕。