Erie County DA investigating after Jeep raffle fails to deliver
Hundreds of folks plunked down cash in 2021 for a probability at winning a brand-new, custom Jeep that was established to be awarded to the lucky winner at an party at the Wattsburg-Erie County Fairgrounds in July of that year.
Just about 17 months later on, ticket-holders are however waiting for a winner to be declared.
The Erie County District Attorney’s Office environment is now investigating the raffle as a suspected scam.
County detectives are wanting into the Jeep giveaway that was portion of the 2021 Great Lakes Jeep Jam, in accordance to info lately posted on the District Attorney’s Office’s web page. The grand prize was by no means shipped, investigators stated.
Detectives are inquiring any individual who may possibly have purchased a ticket for the Jeep raffle to make contact with them at a particular electronic mail handle established up as part of the investigation: jeepjamscam@eriecountypa.gov. Respondents are asked to contain their title and a get hold of range for detectives to use in reaching them.
Investigators reported Tuesday that there are in excess of 200 victims in the raffle, which county detectives initially realized of by a cyber idea. They explained dozens of people today have achieved out to them given that the facts was posted on Dec. 2 on the website of the District Attorney’s Workplace.
No 1 with the Fantastic Lakes Jeep Jam could be arrived at for comment as a result of a telephone number shown with the celebration and revealed in the Erie Moments-Information in June 2021.
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A grand giveaway of a Jeep
The 2021 Terrific Lakes Jeep Jam was sponsored by Erie-centered Gears-N-Grub, in accordance to investigators. The event was held July 15-18, 2021, at the Wattsburg Fairgrounds on Route 8 in Wattsburg.
The celebration highlighted distant command rock crawling, a vendor scavenger hunt, Jeep pedal cars, a mud pit, a vehicle smash for charity, a Jeep playground, a reward auction, a poker run, how-to-clinics and foodstuff distributors, in accordance to the Instances-News listing.
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A spotlight to the party was the Jeep raffle. According to a posting on the Wonderful Lakes Jeep Jam’s Twitter web page, a 2021 diesel Jeep Wrangler Unrestricted Willys 4×4 would be given away to the fortunate winner, alongside with $10,000 in cash. The drawing was scheduled to be held on July 17, 2021, at 5 p.m., according to the Twitter article.
Tickets for the raffle had been $50 apiece or 3 for $100 and were being accessible at www.GreatLakesJeepJam.com.
That website was not working as of Tuesday.
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