STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa woman accused of stealing a winning lottery scratch game ticket has pleaded not guilty.
The Sioux City Journal reports that Ashley Bosler, of Sioux Rapids, entered the pleas Monday in Storm Lake to charges of theft of a lottery ticket or share and abetting theft of a lottery ticket or share. Her trial is to begin Nov. 15.
Prosecutors say Bosler was working at a convenience store when she found the winning ticket by scratching off a corner and scanning the bar code that confirmed it was a winner of a $250,000 prize.
Prosecutors say she hadn’t paid for the ticket and was too young to play, so she asked a co-worker to sign it and eventually her boyfriend, who tried unsuccessfully to claim it.
