SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Police say the investigation into fake video lottery tickets resulted in the arrest of two Sioux Falls women on drug charges, with one accused of making forged tickets.
Officer Sam Clemens says 60-year-old Lizzie Ann Richter is charged with possessing a controlled substance and 27-year-old Jamie Sue Regenmorter is charged with possessing altered lottery tickets.
Clemens says the suspects were taking real tickets, scanning them, altering them and printing them again. He says the also changed the date on the tickets so they could be passed at a future date.
Clemens says investigators aren’t sure if the women were the only ones passing fake tickets.