The Region - News from Aug. 15, 1986

A Santa Paula woman who pleaded no contest to a charge of filing a false police report that lottery tickets had been stolen in a burglary of her small grocery store was ordered to pay the California State Lottery $14,360, representing one dollar for each missing ticket. A Ventura County Municipal Court judge placed Kathleen Garcia on three years’ probation and gave her a suspended 90-day jail sentence on condition that she enters a counseling program. Jay Orr, the Ventura County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case, said it is still not known what happened to the tickets.