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An Upstate man was recently arrested after he tried to cash in winning lottery tickets that were previously stolen from a supermarket, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
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Zarmonn Brushaud Boyd, a 27-year-old Gaffney resident, was charged with intent to defraud, counterfeit game tickets, SLED said in a news release. He was arrested Sept. 29, the same day he was also charged with second-degree burglary, Cherokee County court records show.
On Sept. 26, Boyd tried to redeem the stolen scratch-off lottery tickets in Cherokee County, according to an arrest warrant. Boyd stole the lottery games from the Ingles Market grocery store at 410 West 3rd St., in Gaffney, the arrest warrant said.
Information about the number of tickets that were stolen and the amount of prize money from the winning games was not available.
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Boyd was booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center, SLED said. Bond was set at $25,000 on the combined charges and has not been posted, court records show.
Boyd will be prosecuted by the 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
If convicted on the felony charge fraud, Boyd faces a maximum punishment of 5 years in prison and a $50,000 fine, according to South Carolina law.
The SLED investigation was requested by South Carolina Education Lottery.
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