{"id":249960,"date":"2026-04-03T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:08:10","slug":"oc-woman-loses-45k-in-lotto-ticket-scam-suspects-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249960\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Woman Loses $45K In Lotto Ticket Scam, Suspects At Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA, CA \u2014 An Orange County woman lost $45,000 in cash and jewelry after being targeted in a lottery ticket scam, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened March 19 near Raitt Street and McFadden Avenue in Santa Ana, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said two women approached the victim and claimed they held a winning $2.7 million lottery ticket but could not cash it due to their immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Santa Ana Police Department, the suspects convinced the victim to enter their vehicle and drove her to her home, where she gathered cash and jewelry amounting to $45,000 to serve as collateral so the suspects could cash the ticket on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspects then fled with the cache. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects were described as possibly being of South American descent, and they were last seen driving an older model gray Ford Escape with chrome rims. <\/p>\n<p>Residents with information were asked to contact Investigator S. Guzman at 714-245-8416 or SGuzman@santa-ana.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA, CA \u2014 An Orange County woman lost $45,000 in cash and jewelry after being targeted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-249960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}