After a long investigation and brief standoff, police have raided a local grandmother’s lottery scratch-off distribution ring she was running, illegally benefitting her grandkids.
The ring had apparently been running for as many as five or six years, with the grandmother – Ruthie Douglas – buying scratch-off tickets from the local 7/11 and giving them to her grandkids on birthdays. The grandkids have said to have benefitted as much as $12 over the years.
“Today’s crackdown was about cleaning up our streets,” the police chief said in a news conference. “We can’t have minors exposed to gambling, especially with multiple dollars on the table. This grandmother will be brought to justice.”
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