A Texas woman allegedly let it ride with money she scammed out of a boyfriend.
Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton alleges that Lorraine Rew, 46, found a way to get $1.2 million out of her online boyfriend from Indiana and went to casinos in Oklahoma more than 300 times over two years.
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Rew was arrested in Texas earlier this month on a count of corrupt business influence and 10 counts of counterfeiting, Fox59 reported.
“Sadly, this is a case in which the victim’s heart was in the right place and the alleged perpetrator took advantage of that,” the station quoted Eaton as saying.
Court documents revealed that Rew met the New Palestine man on social media and the pair began a relationship, during which the man sent her $1.2 million between October 2020 and February of this year, according to Fox59.
Rew reportedly told the victim she needed the funds to pay for her daughter’s surgical procedures and prescriptions, along with heart medications for herself.
investigators discovered that Rew was allegedly using the money to finance her lifestyle, which included 167 visits to one Oklahoma casino and 157 to another during the two year span.
Rew is currently being held at Tarrant County Jail in Texas.