Taken from KCMQ.com.

"If you’re a wanted fugitive, you might want to think twice before going to a hotel to claim a sweepstake “prize.” A clever Illinois sheriff used a fictional marketing company to lure dozens of fugitives to a Chicago hotel for one big arrest. The cops sent winning scratch-off tickets to the fugitives, telling them the location of the hotel where they could get their prizes and possibly win a big screen TV - and amazingly, dozens of them fell for it. The sheriff said, “We tried to tap into the Christmas spirit and throw a big dose of the Grinch on top…and the Grinch had a lot of fun.”"

Stay safe,
Bruce C Ziebarth

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