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Police: Mom drove with son on car hood over dentist dispute

BETHLEHEM, Pa.

A Pennsylvania mom faces criminal charges for allegedly driving with her son on the hood of her car after the boy refused to go to the dentist.

Police in Bethlehem Township say the incident began when the 12-year-old boy told 36-year-old Shaurice Jones he wasn’t going to the dentist and climbed on the hood of the car.

Jones then allegedly drove two miles to a regional police office. Police say the speed limit on the road is 40 mph.

LehighValleyLive.com reports Jones, of Bath, was arrested Monday She is charged with child endangerment and reckless endangerment and has been freed on $1,000 bail.

$5.2M lottery winner admits to scamming people

RAPID CITY, S.D.

A California woman who won $5.2 million in a lottery has pleaded guilty in federal court in South Dakota to scamming six people in the wake of her win.

Judy Carroll, 59, of El Cajon, Calif., and her husband won the California lottery in 1989. Authorities say Carroll later scammed people, including a friend in South Dakota, in part by telling them the IRS had frozen her assets because she owed taxes, the Rapid City Journal reported.

Authorities say Carroll ran the scheme from about 2000 to 2016. The IRS did freeze her accounts, once, for a period in 2007 and 2008. Authorities say she also scammed people by telling them she needed money to help her husband, falsely claiming that his identity had been stolen.

Carroll originally was charged with 35 counts of wire fraud. She recently reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion, for underreporting income for nearly two decades.

She could face decades in prison. The agreement also calls for her to pay nearly $1.6 million in restitution to victims and the IRS.

“It’s been a long time coming, and she deserves punishment for what she did for several victims,” said victim Kelly Lhotak, who met Carroll when they were neighbors in California in the mid-1990s.

Associated Press