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| Medford Area Woman Sentenced on Crimes Related to $1 Million Lottery Ticket | ||
| 08/13/2007 | ||
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Lieutenant Tim Steiner Oregon State Police Gaming Enforcement Division An investigation involving Medford Police Department and Oregon State Police Gaming Enforcement Division resulted in the sentencing last Thursday of a southern Oregon woman on the crimes of Aggravated Theft in the First Degree, Forgery in the First Degree, and Cheating. The defendant, CHRISTINA GOODENOW, also lost all rights and interest in the remainder of the $1 million dollars that she won from the Oregon Lottery. Goodenow was originally arrested by Detective B. Mak and Detective Campbell of the Medford Police Department in October 2005 after a search warrant was served on her home. Goodenow cooperated with police and admitted that she used a deceased woman’s credit card to obtain cash advances, purchase personal items, and a large amount of lottery scratch-it tickets. One of the lottery tickets was a $1 million dollar winner purchased on October 9, 2005. Goodenow turned in the winning lottery ticket at the Oregon State Lottery Office in Salem on October 12, 2005. During execution of the search warrant, police located the credit card, credit card statements, and a cashier’s check stub paying off most of the credit card, among other items. Oregon State Police Detective James Meacham was assigned to investigate on behalf of the Oregon Lottery. He located the lottery sales receipts and credit card receipts that Goodenow used to buy the winning lottery ticket. Goodenow admitted to the police that she used the stolen credit card to buy the winning ticket. On November 11, 2006, Goodenow pled guilty to violating the terms of her probation on a drug case. She agreed to have her probation revoked and to serve a six month jail sentence that also provided for inpatient drug treatment. She also plead guilty to Aggravated Theft in the First Degree, Forgery in the First Degree, and Cheating. She was sentenced today on those counts. On the Aggravated Theft and Forgery charges, she was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, 30 days jail, with credit for time served, standard probation conditions, court fees, and stipulated to pay restitution for an unrelated misdemeanor theft case that was dismissed. The total time in jail for the Aggravated Theft and Forgery charges was 60 days with credit for time already served. On the Cheating charge, she was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation, standard probation conditions, court fees, and as a special condition of probation, she is prohibited from playing the Oregon Lottery for the term of probation. Goodenow was to receive $50,000.00, gross, per year for twenty years. After taxes, the annuity would amount to $33,500.00. She received the first payment on October 12, 2005. The state seized the remainder of that payout totaling $10,847.00 when Goodenow was originally arrested by freezing Goodenow ’s bank accounts. Prior to the October 2006 payout, the state seized that money. Today, all of her right, title, and interest in those funds plus the remaining 18 annuity payments was extinguished per the Oregon Criminal Forfeiture statutes as proceeds of the crime. The rights, title, and interest in those funds was vested in the Medford Police Department as the seizing agency pursuant to ORS 131.556. ### www.oregon.gov/OSP ###
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