{"id":34037,"date":"2014-12-11T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34037"},"modified":"2014-12-11T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:16:14","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-thissexual-predator-wins-3-million-from-florida-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/what-do-you-think-about-thissexual-predator-wins-3-million-from-florida-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Think About This?<Br>Sexual Predator Wins $3 Million From Florida Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34038\" title=\"Timothy Poole\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Timothy-Poole-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Timothy-Poole-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Timothy-Poole.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Poole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(The AP is reporting):\u00a0A sexual predator has won almost $3 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando television station WKMG reported Wednesday that Timothy Poole purchased the winning ticket last weekend at a convenience store in Mount Dora, near Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Poole is listed on a Florida Department of Law Enforcement website as a sexual predator.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The television station says Poole was arrested in 1999 for on a charge of sexually battering a 9-year-old boy. Poole denied the allegations but pleaded guilty to attempted sexual battery and was sentenced to time served in jail.<\/p>\n<p>His probation was revoked in 2003 after he failed to show up for counseling sessions. He was sentenced to three years in prison and released in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Poole tells WKMG he was wrongly accused.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FDLE website in a 5 mile radius of downtown Lehigh Acres there are 14 sexual predators and 220 sexual offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The AP is reporting):\u00a0A sexual predator has won almost $3 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket. Orlando television station WKMG reported Wednesday that Timothy Poole purchased the winning ticket&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}