Man accused of cashing stolen lottery tickets

Feb 26, 2009, 7:41 am (9 comments)

Maryland Lottery

BALTIMORE, Md. — A Baltimore man's alleged attempts to cash lottery tickets stolen in a September armed robbery at a Hampstead gas station may have won him nothing but a trip to jail.

Mark Arthur Perry, 44, of the 1300 block of Ensor Street in Baltimore, is charged with armed robbery, robbery, theft of more than $500, first-degree assault and use of a handgun in a violent crime.

He was held without bail at a bail review hearing Friday, according to court records.

Perry and two other men allegedly robbed a Texaco gas station in the 200 block of Md. 30 Sept. 9, taking money, cigarettes and several rolls of scratch-off lottery tickets.

One of the men showed the clerk a gun and ordered him to open the cash register, according to court documents.

Officials for the Maryland State Lottery Commission flagged the stolen tickets in their system so they would be notified if the tickets were cashed.

The suspects reportedly tried to cash several of the stolen tickets at several locations throughout Baltimore the morning after the robbery.

According to court documents, Perry went to the lottery commission's office to try and cash tickets stolen in the robbery, providing a Maryland driver's license and Social Security card with his name and date of birth.

Video surveillance from two other Baltimore businesses showed Perry trying to cash stolen tickets, according to court documents. State police investigators were reportedly able to identify Perry using the photograph from the driver's license he used while trying to cash tickets at the lottery commission.

Carroll County Times

Comments

diamondpalace's avatardiamondpalace

Old school thief vs new age technology.

DC81's avatarDC81

I wouldn't even call it new age technology at this point, just another dumb criminal.

GamerMom's avatarGamerMom

Guess he missed the news the night the story broke about the other guy that tried to do that.

MaddMike51

Stupid is as stupid does!

 

I love stupid criminal storys.

fja's avatarfja

Mark;  "geez these tickets I stole are getting denied when I try to cash them at the local 

            stores.   I know,  I'll take them to the lottery commision with my out of town I.D. and

           say, ""I just got into town to cash these."".....they'll never know where they came

           from."       

                                                       Stooges

ThatScaryChick's avatarThatScaryChick

Quote: Originally posted by DC81 on Feb 26, 2009

I wouldn't even call it new age technology at this point, just another dumb criminal.

I agree.

Halle99's avatarHalle99

LOL....

Good job Todd

PartyI am looking forward to MM on Friday. Good luck everybody.

dingo's avatardingo

No Brain!

 

That man should rob some booze!

thor's avatarthor

which way did he go?, duh!

idiot

does

as

idiot

says


Jack-in-the-Box

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