Posted on 01/06/2004 4:16:28 PM PST by saquin
Ohio woman has fraud, assault convictions, uses alias
JANUARY 6--The Ohio woman who told police that she purchased--and then lost--the winning $162 million Mega Millions lottery ticket--has several arrests on her rap sheet, including convictions for assault and credit card fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned. In addition, Elecia Battle is using an alias and has falsely claimed to be married to the man with whom she now lives.
Battle, whose real name is Elecia Dickson, apparently has borrowed the surname of boyfriend James Battle. The 40-year-old pharmacy worker remains legally married to husband Keith Dickson, though the couple is in the middle of a divorce action pending in Cuyahoga County's Court of Common Pleas.
Using the Battle alias, Dickson this afternoon filed a lawsuit seeking to block the awarding of the Mega Millions jackpot to Rebecca Jemison, the woman who came forward today to claim the lottery jackpot (and who was declared the winner by Ohio state officials).
According to court records and TSG sources, Dickson's rap sheet dates back at least a decade and includes busts for aggravated menacing, assault, and credit card fraud. The latter conviction, according to a source familiar with the case, stemmed from a 1999 swindle Dickson orchestrated at a suburban Cleveland chain store. The below mug shot was taken following Dickson's September 1999 arrest in Cleveland Heights for misdemeanor assault.
The woman's estranged husband--who's been married to Dickson for 13 years--told TSG, "My wife can stretch things out of proportion." He added, "Looks like she filed a bogus police report."
When she went to cops with her tale of the lost lottery ticket, officers asked Dickson how she picked the six winning numbers. A couple of the numbers came from one son's birth date, while another number was her son's age flipped. As for why she picked the winning number 49, Dickson told cops that her "husband turns 49 this year." That came as a surprise to Keith Dickson, himself a dedicated gambler and lottery player. "I'm 44," he said. "I turn 45 in February."
Second number set was better although that one Freeper said "I believer her", whatever that means (ROTFLMAO), and the guy at 13 did, at least, attempt to base his statement on laws of probability (albeit a misapprehension of what can be done in that regard).
Now, for the other two ~ they said the winnings should be split or shared just for the sake of good feeling. I would agree their recommendation was in error, but this is the same kind of "feel good" morality stuff you get with the American Friends Service Committee.
I even have friends who buy into that sort of thing ~ sure, they're nuts but they'd be down there at the jailhouse for bail to get me out at 3 AM so I put up with it ~
You can remove your "DISRUPTER ALERT" now. Still, the do-gooders were in a distinct minority - did you see how many hundreds of responses that thread has now? Wow! And all for a piece of c**p.
I said that the replies EITHER believed her story or advocated splitting the money. I did not mean to infer that each and every reply I referred to did both. It was either one or the other.
Yep. That's why I don't play the lottery. I can't even remember the same numbers for 15 seconds. I later corrected the reply numbers to be 15, 74, 101 and 133.
No big deal. I just took offense to being tagged a "disruptor" when I certainly wasn't that.
That lawyer and every other stinking ambulance chasing POS should be charged for every penny that was lost defending against their frivolity and disbarred
Yeah, but what I want to know is whether hurricane season is over.
I was concerned that you seemed to be tarring everyone with the same brush when it was clear from reading the relevant threads that virtually no FREEPER felt sorry for her (unless she slipped them some of the loot of course).
It was awhile before I came to understand that the winner didn't find the ticket near the store.
Also I wasn't sure if there wasn't a duplicate winning ticket.
Now I don't believe her because some of the facts got clarified.
However I think I will bet 15, 74, 101 and 133 in the next lottery, although I'm going to have to truncate a digit off that 101 and 133. Ever hear of a check digit? I think I'll make 13 out of the 101 and 133. My winning lineup will include 15, 47 (have to turn that one around because the numbers probably don't go that high), 10, 13, oops 13 again.
Will have to get back to you on this one. That ain't gonna work.
How can that be? The ticket was mine and I played those numbers. Everybody involved will be hearing from my lawyers, Dewey, Cheatum & Howe. :-)
I'll have to show this to my wife. She's always saying that I spend too much time joking around and never take anything seriously!
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