Father, Son Charged With Cashing Stolen Lottery Tickets

A 55-year-old Adam's Run man and his 20-year-old son are being held at the Al Cannon Detention Center after being charged with cashing in stolen lottery tickets.

Johnnie F. Hodges, Jr., 55, of 6264 Spring Grove Road, Adams Run, is charged with two counts of falsely uttering or passing a lottery ticket. Scott M. Hodges, 20, also of 6264 Spring Grove Road, is charged with three counts of falsely uttering or passing a lottery ticket, according to a Charleston County Sheriff's Office release. Tuesday afternoon, the two men received bonds on the charges. Johnnie Hughes received a $20,000 bond and Scott Hughes received a $15,000 bond.

The pair is accused of cashing in $714 worth of winning lottery tickets that were stolen from D&V Convenience Store at 8008 Savannah Highway, in Ravenel, Feb. 22.

Education Lottery security officials provided CCSO investigators with copies of surveillance tapes from several other convenience stores and gas stations along Savannah Highway from Ravenel to West Ashley allegedly showing the men cashing in winning tickets that were among the ones stolen from D&V, according to charging affidavits provided by CCSO.

Scott Hodges is seen on three of the surveillance tapes and Johnnie Hodges is seen on two of them. A total of 53 scratch-off lottery tickets were cashed in at five locations between about 5:50 a.m. and 6:38 a.m. Feb. 22. Investigators say those tickets were among the four rolls of scratch-off tickets stolen from D&V sometime after midnight that same day.

The lottery tickets were not reported stolen until about 9 a.m., Feb. 22, according to the CCSO incident report on the D&V burglary. The burglary remains under investigation.