SCOUTING REPORT | Bogus lottery tickets, inflation blues, finding patriarchy, moving over for emergency vehicles
A weekly digest of interesting local, state, national and even international developments
We begin this week in the world of criminal justice and the plight of convicted felon Zachary Dietz, the subject of a South Dakota Supreme Court ruling last month.
The 52-year-old man was involved in a scheme to create bogus lottery tickets. But his tickets were not winners. A Lincoln County grand jury indicted Dietz in 2020, and he entered a not-guilty plea. A trial date was set. While that case was pending, he was indicted a second time, again, for forging lottery tickets.
He missed the trial in his first case, and a judge issued a bench warrant. Upon arrest, he entered guilty pleas on both charges. Still, he got another chance. A judge sentenced him to five-year prison sentences on each charge, but they were suspended on condition that he remain in the good graces of the law.
