Three people who tried to cheat at keno games in Blue Springs have been found guilty.
The Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:00 pm
BnEATRICE — Three people who tried to cheat at keno games in Blue Springs have been found guilty.
The three — 36-year-old Jana Fletcher, 46-year-old Robert Roberts and 43-year-old Jamie Phipps — pleaded no contest in Gage County District Court. They are all from Wymore.
They were convicted of trying to cheat a lottery device, violating Nebraska’s Lottery Act.
Sentencing was set for October.
Authorities say that when one of the three called a keno game, he or she would withhold a numbered ball ejected from the keno machine. Then he or she would place a “one-spot’’ bet that the number on the ball would be called in the next game. One-spot bets have odds of 3 to 1, giving betters payoffs of three times their bets.