Jail for lotto scammer

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 posted 10:56 AM EDT

Two Edmonton drug addicts were sentenced yesterday for helping the local kingpin of a lottery scam bilk 94 U.S. victims - most of them seniors - out of more than $368,000.

Miles Strong, 42, was handed a 30-month prison term while Connie Peters, 39, sobbed as she was given a two-year conditional sentence to be served in the community.

Provincial court Judge Michael Stevens-Guille described the lottery scam as "the cowardly preying upon innocent people for greed" and to feed a cocaine habit.

Although Strong and Peters were not the brains of the operation and were used merely as runners, Stevens-Guille said they were "an integral part of the fraud" and they were not "ignorant of what was going on."

The pair pleaded guilty on March 30 to fraud over $5,000.

Miles Strong, 42, was handed a 30-month prison term while Connie Peters, 39, sobbed as she was given a two-year conditional sentence to be served in the community.

Provincial court Judge Michael Stevens-Guille described the lottery scam as "the cowardly preying upon innocent people for greed" and to feed a cocaine habit.

Although Strong and Peters were not the brains of the operation and were used merely as runners, Stevens-Guille said they were "an integral part of the fraud" and they were not "ignorant of what was going on."

The pair pleaded guilty on March 30 to fraud over $5,000.

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