Georgia Couple Win $270 Million Lottery
Here are a couple of previous Georgia winners of the Mega Millions lottery (man on the left in 2o06 and the man on the right in 2007).
Man at the counter: Damn, I didn’t win the Mega Millions again!
Counterman: Yeah, some couple from Georgia won it.
Me: It’s always somebody from Georgia who wins it.
A chorus: You got that right, yeah.
Man at the counter: Not true. I’m from Georgia and I ain’t won crap yet.
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, March 26, 1992
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Two men conned a 32-year-old Paterson woman out of $300 and stole her car stereo Tuesday after persuading her to give them the money in exchange for a share in lottery winnings, police said.
The woman was shaken but not injured, police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said. He gave this account from a report written by Patrolman Ronald Schaarschmidt:
The scam occurred between noon and 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. One man approached the woman as she stood at a phone booth on Engle Street and asked for directions to a church. A second man then walked up and they talked.
“The first man indicated that the second male had won money from the New York State lottery, a large sum of money,” Tinsley said. “He told her that the second male would give her part of that money if she would give him some money to hold as trust.”
Tinsley said it was unclear how much money the man said he won or how much he said he would give the woman. She drove the men to the Midlantic Bank at 1 Engle St. in her car, cashed a $300 personal check, and gave the money to the supposed lottery winner.
They asked her to drive up Engle Street to a friend’s house. When she and one of the men got out of the car to go to the apartment, he ran. When she returned to her car, the other man had removed the stereo and fled, Tinsley said.
ID: 17372519 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)