Man Sentenced For Bogus Winning Lottery Ticket

A man who created a bogus winning Powerball ticket and planted it at work as a practical joke has been sentenced to a year of probation for forgery.

The 38 year-old man, James Koons Jr., was also fined $2,500 and will cover legal fees of the co-worker who was arrested after trying to redeem the ticket at Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters!

Koons said he only meant to play a prank on co-workers when he left the bogus $853,000 ticket underneath a newspaper in his trucking company�s break room.

"It was intended to get a reaction from someone, and then I would burst their bubble", he said. "In hindsight, it was a terrible joke".

Meanwhile, the co-worker, Brian Miller, was charged with fraud after telling investigators he purchased the ticket, which Koons had actualy created on his home computer.

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