Oct. 24 (UPI) — A Maryland girl who beforehand received two $10,000 lottery prizes mentioned a cashier’s urging led her to strive a scratch-off ticket that earned her a $100,000 jackpot.
The 34-year-old Brandywine girl informed Maryland Lottery officers she was at Waldorf Liquors on Crain Freeway in Charles County when the cashier known as her consideration to the brand new Blizzard Bucks scratch-off ticket.
“I truthfully had no intention of taking part in,” the girl mentioned. “The cashier there at Waldorf Liquors identified this new ticket and the urge hit me.”
The participant instantly scratched the ticket off, revealing a $15 prize. She determined to make use of $10 of her winnings to purchase a second ticket, which earned her the $100,000 jackpot.
“After I noticed the $100,000, I could not consider it. I stayed calm, however all I used to be pondering was ‘Oh, my God,’” the winner recalled.
The girl, who mentioned she beforehand received two $10,000 prizes from Decide 4 drawings, mentioned she went out to the parking zone to inform her husband.
“My husband was ready within the automobile. He thought I might gone loopy,” she recalled.
The winner mentioned the jackpot will go towards buying a brand new automobile and saving for her kids’s training fund.
BALTIMORE — An Ellicott City woman pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling more than $1 million from a real estate agency and using the funds to pay for vacations, Taylor Swift tickets and more, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to her guilty plea, between January 2020 and November 2023, Jennifer Tinker, 41, defrauded the real estate agency that she worked for by transferring over $1 million of company funds to her personal bank accounts, officials said.
Tinker embezzled the funds from the agency’s escrow, operating and commission accounts through wire transfers and Zelle payments, according to court officials.
She hid the transfers by listing fake recipients on the wire transfer paperwork in an effort to make it look legitimate. She would then wire the stolen money to her personal account.
Court officials said between February 2021 and November 2023, Tinker wired money to her personal accounts more than 90 times. She also made fraudulent entries in her employer’s internal accounting records to cover her transfers.
According to court officials, Tinker used the stolen funds to pay for luxury items and vacations, along with Taylor Swift tickets and five different vehicles.
In 2023, tickets to see Taylor Swift in concert were notoriously expensive and hard for fans to get their hands on, with some reportedly paying upwards of 70 times face value.
Tinker faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for the federal wire fraud charges. She is scheduled for sentencing on April 10, 2024, court officials said.
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