Lottery News and Stories
Jail for lotto scammer
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 posted 10:56 AM EDT
Two Edmonton drug addicts were sentenced yesterday for helping the local kingpin of a lottery scam bilk 94 U.S. victims -
most of them seniors - out of more than $368,000.
Miles Strong, 42, was handed a 30-month prison term while Connie Peters, 39, sobbed as she was given a two-year conditional
sentence to be served in the community.
Provincial court Judge Michael Stevens-Guille described the lottery scam as "the cowardly preying upon innocent people for
greed" and to feed a cocaine habit.
Although Strong and Peters were not the brains of the operation and were used merely as runners, Stevens-Guille said they
were "an integral part of the fraud" and they were not "ignorant of what was going on."
The pair pleaded guilty on March 30 to fraud over $5,000.
Miles Strong, 42, was handed a 30-month prison term while Connie Peters, 39, sobbed as she was given a two-year conditional
sentence to be served in the community.
Provincial court Judge Michael Stevens-Guille described the lottery scam as "the cowardly preying upon innocent people for
greed" and to feed a cocaine habit.
Although Strong and Peters were not the brains of the operation and were used merely as runners, Stevens-Guille said they
were "an integral part of the fraud" and they were not "ignorant of what was going on."
The pair pleaded guilty on March 30 to fraud over $5,000.
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