MIAMI – A Florida couple faces felony charges for faking a big Florida Lottery win.
The Escambia Co. Sheriff’s Office said Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones, from Walton County, are accused of trying to pass off a $50 scratch-off lottery ticket as a million dollar winner.
The Florida Lottery said the 500 Times The Cash ticket was actually two tickets unskillfully pieced together.
“They had an individual that thought that they could, they could crudely take two tickets and put them together and pretend as if they were a million dollar winner,” said Escambia Sheriff Chip Simmons.
He said Enders, 36, turned the fake ticket in at a Florida Lottery office in Pensacola on March 1st. According to the arrest report, the lottery office workers immediately recognized the ticket was fake as Enders tried to cash it in. The report notes that Enders confirmed she was the owner of the ticket, including a signed affidavit stating the ticket was real, and acknowledging the penalties of perjury if caught lying.