He wins the jackpot of $ 167 million in the lottery and ends up behind bars a few days later

Here is the luckiest man in the United States … or not. James Farthing, an American living in Kentucky, was placed in detention this Wednesday, April 30, in Florida for the assault of a police officer. Until then, it is a banal affair that would make a few lines in the local newspaper. Yes but here it is: these facts occur a few days after James Farthing won the jackpot of $ 167 million in the lottery on Saturday April 26, as Wkyt tells.

On Saturday, he bought his ticket to Georgetown in Kentucky on Monday, he posed for photos with the celebration check and on Wednesday, he was imprisoned. Funny week for this man who had everything to be the most beautiful of his life. He had bought a powerball ticket at 2 dollars and entered the history of Kentucky by winning the most gain in the lottery in the history of the state.

Happy winner but recurrent

During his arrest, James Farthing was in a hotel on Tuesday April 29 in the evening when a police officer tried to intervene in an altercation. The victim claims that Farthing gave him a punch. The latter would then have refused to comply with the police officers and would have resisted the arrest. He would have even kicked the policeman’s face. In addition, he was in parole until August 2025 for acts committed in Kentucky and the facts took place in Florida.

If he won the Loto, James Farthing has a long criminal record like the arm: he includes convictions for falsification of evidence, participation in organized crime, offenses in drug law, concealment of stolen and vol.