PREVIEW | Crime Wire Weekly 4/10/26 | Powerball Winner’s Lost Ways, Massage Murder, Freudian Slips

0:11 All right, folks, we have a heck of a lineup for you today, so welcome back. In a quick look at the topics. In Louisiana, there is a crackdown on litterbugs, but is the law constitutional or just trash? That joke was garbage. I thought it was hilarious. I did that, Joseph. Just trash. They're picking up letter, get it, I got it all right. Also in Louisiana, a festival turns into a nightmare for some eighteen people after a man plows into a crowd while drunk. In Tennessee, a school board members under review after telling a high schooler she is hot in the middle of a public meeting. We'll talk about that. In Kentucky, the winner of the one seventy six million dollars power ball is arrested for the third time since winning. He just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Kelly, we're gonna talk about him.

1:09 Got to hate that. Yeah, we got all this, plus segments including they Stole What What? True Crime, Time Machine, and a news segment we're calling utterly unrelated. It's a jam packed show today, some fourteen or so stories we're bringing you so let's get into it. On Crime War Weekly, I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jim Kelly. It's finally after Easter. It is. I won't have to say Happy Easter for you were following up. Oh, you'll probably say it next week. Yeah, and I'll be like, it's gonna be a year for now, y'all. If you listen to Kelly's been yeah, she's been wishing Happy Easter for like four episodes. Now, I love Easter. Okay, I'm with the past all colors, I get. Okay, speaking of saying stuff, did you look at your TikTok feed? My TikTok feed, you expect your TikTok feed when you posted some of the previews of some of our episodes, because I was looking, I mean some of our stories and oh, people got big mad about our reporting on that the teacher who hit.

2:13 The vape man they hit a nerve? Did everybody on there is telling me to lead that lady alone. Y'all know I do these little if you follow the Crime Wire Weekly Facebook, I do a lot of these little captions, if you will. It's it's kind of like a headline of this of a particular story that we covered on each show, and one of those you likely saw was about the lady who hit the vape and she's a teacher and it was testing week and man, everybody on TikTok must hit them THG vapes. That's all I gotta say. They come at me. How is that? Names? Free Becky, Free Becky. Don't kill the messenger. Man, We're just yeah, telling you what made the headlines.

2:53 Yeah, they're like, we don't blame her. I like my teacher's hive. Well yeah, so anyway, go check out the TikTok if you want to. I think it's at. Exposed Something podcast hosts. Yeah, there you go, So go check that out. All right, let's get into it. We're starting out in Louisiana, and lettering in Louisiana is no longer just a bad habit. It's increasingly likely to result in a ticket. Now. That's thanks to a strengthened statewide enforcement program that lets everyday citizens report offenders directly. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nung guessers and state agencies or ramping up efforts to combat the notorious litter problem. It's estimated it costs taxpayers about one hundred million dollars annually to clean up the state. Under a new system that took effect this year, witnesses can actually call an anti litter hotline and provide key details like a license plate number, make model, location, time of incident, and any photos or video. They sign an affidavit, and the violator then receives an official ticket in the with no knowledge of who reported them. Boy, we're going to get into this in a second. Previously, the hotline, launched in partnership with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in the Lieutenant Governor's office, resulted in mostly warning letters. Last year or alone, the state mailed out eight hundred and seventy such notices, But a law passed during the twenty twenty five legislative session ended that this what's known as

4:25 Acts sixty seven, enforces authority and expands it, which allowed state park rangers to issue citations for letter violations anywhere in Louisiana, not just parts. So if you reported someone littering, you sign an AFFI, David, don't worry, they won't know you reported them. That from Billy Nungesser, and I'm going to tear into that. We have a very dirty state, and if you keep your pedal on the gas for the next five years, we can clean up the state. I'm telling you we're making progress. And the penalties in this, folks, are no joke. Convicted litterary face finds ranging from one hundred and seventy five dollars to one thousand dollars plus court costs. So, for example, I'm gonna give you simple lettering, which is like if you have a truck bed and you have a Walmart bag in there and it flies out on the highway, you can get up to one hundred and seventy five dollars ticket. Intentional lettering, which would be like tossing a coke cane out of a window up to two hundred and fifty dollars. And gross littering is the third level there, and that's also known as illegal dumping. You have a couch that you want to get rid of and you pull up and you just push it out of the car, that is considered gross lettering and you can get thousand dollars for that, and I agree with that incidentally, but I'm gonna get into the process. Offenders must also complete up to eight hours in litter abatement work, which means they're gonna be picking up trash on the side of the interstate and none.

5:54 Guesser is also pushing education and prevention with this bill. So, Kelly, give me your thoughts and then I'm gonna give you mine, Okay. Uh, I think that this bill's probably had good intention, Like there's there's great So you said the couch thing, and that's kind of funny because that just happened. So yeah, out in front of your Yeah, someone. Someone threw a whole couch out right behind my fence of my home, and I'm like, are you serious? Now, let me tell you what happened. About five months ago. Uh, someone threw a mattress out and it landed right up against my fence, and then rats got in it and started breeding, and we started having a rat problem between me and my neighbors because of all these rats.

6:40 Do you know. Uh? It took me about two weeks making phone calls trying to get someone, and no one wanted to take responsibility for the mattress. So I got mad and I was like, well, what if I just drag it out and you know, in the roadway, and then someone hits it? Do you care? Then? And they're like, ma'am, you can't do that. Well, then someone needs to come get this because I can't take it, you know, in my car to you know who's responsible. So part of me goes, hell yeah, when these large objects are just being dumped because people don't want to go pay the fee to go to the dump and dump it. But like an unintentionable, unintentional bag flying out of here, Chuck Ben, that's kind of steep. Yeah, well I agree, But let me tell you my problems with this. And look, nobody out there is detest litterbugs more than Jim Chapman. I promise you. I can't stand it when I see people litter. I have a lot of problems with this bill though. First of all, Billy Nonguesser is full of shit when he says that you can remain anonymous, And let me tell you why.

7:40 In the Constitution you are guaranteed to have the opportunity to face your accuser, which means if you go to court, if you say, you know what, I didn't litter and you get a quarter over this, you can get what's called discovery. And part of discoveries who reported you? And that's very important in this case, because if you have a pissed off ex wife, or you cut a guy off in traffic and just because he thinks it's funny and he wants to waste your time, and believe it or not, there are people out there like that. They can report this guy littered and they're gonna send you. You won't even know anything happened until you get the ticket in the mail, and they're gonna say, you know, a freaking month ago, you throw a coke can out. Well, if Jim Chapman got that, because I know I don't letter, I would know right off that's bullshit, and I would want to know who reported it, and I have a right by law to know that because it's very important.

8:37 If you have someone out there that is maliciously saying that and it's you, it turns out to be your ex wife, it probably be good for the police to. Make and you know for a fact that that's gonna happen. It's one that's gonna happen. And I'm not saying I'm sure it's gonna be a low percentage of what's out there, but if it's one, there's no way this is gonna hold up in court, to me, Uh, we already pay people to enforce littering law. They're called the police, they're you. Know, and I know that your abatement programs to that. Well, they pick up the trash, but they don't enforce it. The police enforce litter law, and we already pay them through tax dollars to do that. I know they don't necessarily want to waste their time, nor do I want police going out there, you know, but if it's a problem, that's who's paid to report, write tickets, those sort of things.

9:27 Because this leads to other things. The next thing is you can report people not wearing a seat belt, and then you can report people speeding, and then next thing, you know, it's the Walmart checkout, Yeah, the self checkout. Right, that citizens policing themselves. And I just don't agree with this. I hate litterbugs. I appreciate the spirit of the bill, Yeah, but there are way too many problems with this. There's way too many people that could do this for malicious reasons, and unless they required some sort of I don't think you should just be able to send somebody a ticket. Yeah. I don't either, And so my mind would go more towards like our waterways. You know, people dump in our waterways to try to just get rid of things, and it does cause you know, people that aren't from here.

10:13 You know, we do have people that'll throw like refrigerators and things like in the ditches and stuff like that. That to me, if you saw someone doing that, I think people should be held accountable for that. Totally agree, yes, but like you said, you know, you need some sort of person, some sort of just say someone throw a cat, because you have a. Right, like you said to Discovery, but you know, how can you possibly defend yourself two months later if someone says that you did something You're like, wait. What, like what proven to me? Idea, yeah, yeah, And so what what's likely they're thinking is going to happen is they know that a lot of these are gonna get thrown out in court. But then you're backing up the court system with things that are going to just be bullshit and somewhat you know they're not going to hold hold too. So maybe it needs some refine here. I agree. I like the spirit of the bill, but I come on like the smaller I mean, I know you're not supposed to throw cigarettes out the window, even cigarette butts right, and you can get a ticket for that. But people who are just wanting to get people in trouble will cause them problems.

11:17 That's what's gonna take over here. There are some people that just don't have good intentions, and you road rate, they rode rage with you, and they may just do that just because they got nothing better to do. Next time you pissed me off, I'm gonna write Jim Chapman on a Walmart bag and I'm gonna throw it behind your car and take a picture of it and say, see. Right, well according to this according to this bill, I'd have to pay a ticket over that, whether I did it or not. And then all of a sudden there's a Walmart bag war you and I. Yeah, all right, let's move on to well, actually were gonna stay in Louisiana, We're gonna go to New Iberia. A fifty seven year old man was arrested Saturday after his vehicle plowed into a crowd of parade goers at a New Iberia festival. So this included injuring eighteen people. Louisiana State Police identified the driver as Todd Landry, and troopers say he was driving while impaired when the crash occurred at around two thirty pm near the intersection of Savannicuette Street and Malansas Road in the Brussard area, which is just outside of New Iberia.

12:17 According to investigators, Landry's truck struck multiple pedestrians participating in the parade. The Iberia Pari Sheriff's Office confirmed that eighteen to nineteen people were evaluated and treated at area hospitals, with some sustaining serious injuries. Several victims were reportedly trapped under the vehicle or involved in secondary chaos, including a flipped golf cart, before being freed. Landry showed obvious signs of impairment at the scene, Troopers said a breath sample later revealed a blood alcohol concentration of zero point one three seven, nearly twice Louisiana's legal limit of point oh eight. He was taken into custody and booked into the jail on the following charges, driving while impaired. His first defense eighteen counts of first degree negligent injuring, careless opper, open container of alcohol in the vehicle, but the crash does not seem to have been intentional. According to the Sheriff's Office.

13:08 Louisiana State Police Troop One is continuing the investigation. Festival organizers and attendees described the scenes shifting rapidly from celebration to chaos as the vehicle entered the parade route. Video footage circulating on social media showed injured people on the ground and first responders rushing to assist. Many of those hospitalized have since been treated and released. The Louisiana Allow Your Low New Year Festival is an annual cultural event celebrating the Loation community in the region with parades, food, and traditional performances. Yeah, first of all, I have a problem with the sheriff saying it wasn't intentional because you got behind the wheel drunk. Now, it may have not been his intent to plowing eighteen people, and I'm not saying it was, but that is what happened, and that was not an accident.

13:55 When you choose to get behind the wheel drunk, which is what he did, he could have killed eighteen people. And so this is a question and it's a concern. You know, this is his first defense DWI. It's not like his fourth. So typically with first defense DUIs or dwis, it's pretty much a slap on the rest. It seems like these days. I don't know how much the plowing into eighteen people will play a part in this, but I sure hope it plays a big part. Yeah. I could have killed eighteen people, absolutely. I mean you're driving a bomb down the road under the influence. Right, yeah, and you know too many options. I obviously wasn't there, but usually parade routes have barriers and it's very clear that you there's a parade route there, or you know, there's a celebration going on. So you must have been pretty damn impaired to miss all of that and then potentially take the lives of people. And you have to think long term. If you've got broken legs, broken limbs, you know, you might have hit somebody who climbs a powerpole for a living. You know, they're the breadwinner of their home. Now very much affected long term some people's livelihoods and possibly their way of living. So it's more than just injuring people. I mean long term, these people are going to face some serious, you know, potentially some serious struggles as a result of this. Did they say if there were any children? Have you seen any updates? I'm assuming there were.

15:21 I would assume that at a festival. I'm sure there was. I haven't seen. Hey, prayers, seriously, prayers to the people that were involved in that, and for a speedy recovery and that people can move on quickly from this one. But you can't just say sorry when you hit eighteen people. No, So we'll keep y'all posted for sure on the sentence for this one, because it'll be interesting to see what this first offender gets sentenced to, even considering the extenuating circumstances. All right, let's go on to Tennessee and a Washington County school board member is facing formal review after a video of him telling a teenage female student quote, God, you're hot, you know that unquote by placing his arms around her during a public meeting went viral. This marked outrage, obviously among parents, and calls for his resignation. The incident occurred last week. This was that the regularly scheduled Washington County School Board meeting. A high school student had just finished presenting research comparing different schools when district board member Keith Irvin, seated next to this female student, made the remark and asked where she attended school. Video footage even showed Irvin putting her his arm around the student as he spoke to her. Superintendent Jerry Boyd described the moment as creating an immediately uncomfortable situation in the room. A quote,

16:51 in all honesty, it certainly was an uncomfortable situation. You know, there's a lot of nervousness in that room, Boyd said. He also added, the board a high level of professionalism, and certainly it's being discussed and questionable whether or not the comment met that standard. I think that's putting it very politically speaking. He also said, I believe the general belief is no the meeting continued when the student when the student basically sat back down because according to the school board, there was no immediate threat at that point in time. The district board's chair described the comment as grossly inappropriate, and the full board is now reviewing the matters.

17:34 Officials say they will take action if it's deemed necessary. Irvin has not publicly responded to the controversy, and the student's family also declined to comment. Parents, however, reacted swiftly and sharply. Hillary Hayley, a district parent, said the comments weren't acceptable. As a member of the school board, he's responsible for our children's health and welfare and safety and education, and the display put on tells me he should be nowhere around our children. The clips spread rapidly on social media, prompting a petition and plan protest demaning Irvin's removals. Some parents of question whether Irving, who faced prior discipline, not for something like that, but he's been in trouble before in the school board, remains fit to serve. Washington County officials emphasize the student's safety and professionalism our top priorities, and the board is expected to address the process soon, though no specific timeline for a decision has been announced publicly.

18:36 So before we get to your comments kJ on this, I want everyone out there to hear the following short clip because it's important that you hear this firsthand. So here's that clip. God, you're heart, you know that. Where do you go? All right? Don't you use your own perception of life to determine what the hell going on? Sometimes? Because you know, when I think of high school kids, which I taught them for a long time, I can never, not one time ever think that I never thought that a kid was hot. That the choice of wording is disturbing. Now, who would you say a young girl was beautiful or that a young man would be handsome, you know, or was handsome or something? Sure, you know, you just you tell them that a prom Oh you look so nice, you look handsome, you look beautiful. It's a very respectful way of telling a child. But what in the hell, why would you look how inappropriate in front of other people and openly and then reach over and huger, God, you're hot? That is that's weird.

19:40 That is weird. Yeah, well it's cringy as fuck. Yeah, pardon my French, but it sickens me out, y'all. This is an older man and as he's saying this, he's pulling her towards him. And let me tell you, there's such a thing out there as a Freudian slap, and all that basically means is something you think you accidentally say. And I can tell you this guy did not plan on that coming out of his mouth in public. That, in my opinion, was a Fordian slept And this guy's got issues because that's what he was thinking in his head and it just came out. Yeah, before he knew. It, and it had nothing to do with anything that they were talking about.

20:23 That he was looking at her and thinking she was hot and it slept. Yeah, if that was he ought to be he ought to be out of there. Now. He's too big of a liability. And I'm not saying that he's a he's a predator who's going to run out and just start, you know, raping kids or something. But what I'm saying is that if you can't control yourself in a meeting in front of other people, in gravity high. School kids, saying God, you're hot and putting your arms around her, yeah, inappropriate? Man. Yeah. I don't think there's any defense of that. Nope at all. I don't. I don't know what he's gonna No wonder he hadn't said anything. What he's say. Oh my goodness. All right. Let's go to Indiana, where a mother is facing nine counts of first degree murder after prosecutors say she lured the father of her two young children with the promise of a late night surprise back massage into her car and then shot him execution style in the head, before driving to his parents' suburban home and gunning them down as well. Jenna's Struggle, thirty years old of Saint John, Indiana, is accused in the triple homicide of thirty two year old Jacob, who went by Jake Lambert, and his parents, fifty four year old Stacy Ford and fifty five year old Patrick Ford. The killings occurred in the early morning hours in Chicago's Far South suburbs. Strubel I keep saying Struble, it's Strubble, which is yeah, but she's like in Trouble and her name is Trouble. It's kind of interesting Struggle, you know, all right.

21:47 Strubble picked up Lambert between eleven and eleven thirty pm on March twenty second. Instead of heading home, She told him she had a quote unquote surprise and offered to give him a back massage because he had been complaining about back paint. She pulled over her on Burnham Road, which is near this small village, and instructed him to remove his shirt and hat, recline in the passenger seat, and lie face down. Struggle then used a massage gun she had purchased and rubbed his back for approximately twenty minutes. So it sounds like things were going pretty well. Yeah, But in the car in the car, so hey, but. You can't deny you know that that's what he was thinking, right, This.

22:28 Is massage gun out man, Yeah, all right, gear. But then Lambert criticized her massage technique. Up there you go there guns you want to mess it up? Quick criticized. But then this is beyond just almost jokes, because Struggle allegedly reached under the seat for a glock handgun that she had bought in December, and then she had fitted it with a you're ready for this silencer that she ordered online months earlier. Prosecutors say she held the gun to the back of his head for about eight minutes while contemplating whether to pull the trigger before firing the fatal shot. After the shooting, Struggle allegedly drove to the Ford family, which was on the East Norway Trail in unincorporated Crete Township, where she fatally shot both of Lambert's parents.

23:17 Court document state she had previously described them as overbearing. Struggled then returned to her home in Saint John, where her thre and four year old were and the children were both parented by Lambert and they were both staying at the residence. She was arrested there Later that day, and after making incriminating statements to family members, a firearm recovered from her home matched the murder weapon, and shocking new details revealed in the prosecutor's findings. Struggle told investigators she had also considered killing her own parents, but was unsure whether she would have the quote nerve to do it end quote. Struggle waived extradition from Indiana and is being held without bond at the Will County Adult Detention Center in Juliet.

23:58 I mean, I don't even know what to think of about that. This thing starts off as, uh, something fun, and this woman just absolutely lost her mind. Premeditated, criticized about her technique she. Was looking for for an opening. You don't buy a silencer. You don't need a silencer. Eh, I got a silencer. I'm not riding with you. Then, well, I mean, I don't have it for a pistol. That is kind of weird for a pistol. But you. Know what I'm saying. I'm saying she just bought the silencer in December and then she's got it fitted for a pistol. Why go kill his parents? If it were We're not premeditated, right, Like? Uh, that right there completely closes the whole. I didn't plan on doing it. Temporary insanity, please, Yeah, I'm wondering if they were aggravating or whatever you said, Yeah, overbearing? Overbearing?

24:57 Yeah, so what it sounds like if you want to kill her own parents too? And again, this is just my own opinion. There's nothing that I know about this case beyond what I've told you. But maybe they all were sinsing. There was something going on with her, and everybody was kind of being critical of whatever that might be, and that's why she wiped everybody out. But I think that silencer is going to play a big role in her not you know, she's not gonna be able to argue that it was just part of them for the moment. I temporary insaneity. Yeah, I think that that purchasing of that silencer is gonna play a. Big rule in it, probably right, All right? Well, I wish I could say we're going to lighten it up a little bit, but not quite yet. We are, however, going to jump on the true crime time.

25:39 Machine booby doo be doo b do b do b doo b do, And this time. We're not going far from home. We're going to get to New Orleans, and I'm going to tell you about April tenth of eighteen thirty four. Okay, this day in eighteen thirty four. So on the morning of April tenth, eighteen thirty four, flames tore through an elegant three story mansion on Rural Street in the heart of the French quarter to the city's elite. It was the home of Madame Delphine la Larie. That's easy to say, yeah, she was a prominent Creole socialite, known for her wealth, lavish parties, and seemingly refined manners. But what rescuers uncovered amid the smoking chaos would expose one of the most barbaric episodes of cruelty in the Antebellum Louisiana history. A secret attic chamber where enslaved men, women and children had endured systematic torture.

26:38 Firefighters and bystanders rushed to the scene as smoked bellowed from the kitchen. Inside, they found a seventy year old enslaved woman, the household cook, chained by her ankle to the stove. She had deliberately set the fire. She later confessed in a desperate suicide attempt to escape the fate she fear most being dragged upstairs to the torture room, a place where no one ever returned. While Madame La Larie and her husband, doctor Lewis La Larie, frantically saved their fine furniture and valuables, they refused to hand over the keys to the slave quarters. Bystanders, including Judge Jean Francois Canog, forced their way in, and what they discovered in the attic was beyond comprehension. Seven enslaved people, more or less horribly mutilated, were found suspended by their necks with spiked iron collars that prevented any movement. Their limbs appeared stretched and torn from repeated abuse. Many were emaciated, covered in scars from whippings and sharp instruments. In two week to walk, One elderly woman had a deep head wound, another wore heavy irons on her feet, and a boy told rescuers he had been chained there for five months, fed only a handful of meal each day. He was also subjected to daily beatings. The victims were carried on stretchers to the city government building just blocks away, where

28:13 they received medical care. Local newspapers including The New Orleans b reported the scene in graphic detail and condemned the barbarish and fiendish atrocities committed by Madame La Larie. The La Laries fled the city as an enraged mob ransacked the mansion, destroying furniture and eluding what remained, and the couple eventually escaped to France, where Delphine lived until her death in eighteen forty nine. She never faced criminal charges in the United States for the horse committed under her roof, and prior whispers of La Larie's cruelty of circulated in New Orleans society. In eighteen twenty eight, she had been investigated for abusing enslaved people and forced to forfeit several of them, yet her wealth and social standing shielded her until a fire stripped away that facade. Now the discovery sent shockwaves through the city and fueled abolitionist arguments against the institution of slavery, and even today, the Lollery Mansion still stands on Rural Street, a haunting reminder of the brutality that once hid behind its wrought iron balconies in Creole elegance, and they even do ghost tours which recount the tale of two thousands of visitors each year, Though many of the most gruysome later embellishments, such as victims with brains stirred by sticks or limbs reset into grotesque shapes,

29:43 were added decades after the event and lack support of the eighteen thirty four actual account. The events of eighteen thirty four on April tenth remind a stark chapter in New Orleans dark history, one that even a fire could not burn the way. And that is your true crime time machine, what happened on April tenth of eighteen thirty four. You know, when you go to New Orleans, if you've never been there before, there is a lot of dark history, but also a lot of like creepy stuff. You know, I know that mansion. It has a big placard in front of it. Well, have you ever been to the Death Museum in New Orleans?

30:25 Yes? Okay, I took my students there on a field trip because why not. They had serial killer stuff there, and I wanted, you know, to give the kids an exciting kind of weird field trip. But damn, man like people are just capable of so much that a lot of us can't even contemplate. You know, I. Work so hard to try to protect animals and you know, and creatures. I just can't imagine going to the level of hurting a human. Right. But I'll tell you this, if there's a woman I am obsessed with right now in New Orleans. Have you ever heard of Yvonne Lafleur. You've seen her on TikTok. Oh, my gosh, y'all look her up if you if you have a second. But she's a I would say she's a socialite, but she's she's an elderly woman now, but she owns a fine clothing store, and she has just got all of the New Orleans class and pomp, you know, and circumstance, and she's just lovely. So you have these lovely people and then you have crap like that that's happened in that, you know, in New Orleans. Is a right start contrast.

31:25 Yeah, you know. Wow, All right, let's go back to current times. And I don't think they had the power ball back then, to you in the in the eighteen hundreds. All right, well, we got it now. But there's a big story circulating on this one. So James Farthing, the Kentucky man who claimed a record one hundred and sixty seven point three million powerball jackpot less than a year ago, has been arrested for the third time since his windfall. Now Farthing, who's fifty one years old of Georgetown, was taken into custody Saturday on charges of second degree burglary and possession of marijuana following an alleged break in at a residence in Lexington. According to police reports, a homeowner reported seeing Farthing on security cameras attempting to enter through a side door.

32:09 He allegedly fled the scene in a black Porsche after stealing approximately twelve thousand dollars in cash. Officers later located Farthing and arrested him. A marijuana joint was reportedly found in plane view inside his vehicle, and subsequent search uncovered additional marijuana. I wonder if he was getting ready for testing at the local school. You know yeah. Farthing claimed the massive powerball prize in April twenty twenty five. After purchasing the winning ticket. He and his mother, Linda Grizzle, publicly accepted the check at a Kentucky Lottery event, instantly becoming one of the state's largest jackpot winners in history. His legal troubles began almost immediately. Just weeks after claiming the prize, he was arrested in Penelas County on charges including battery on a law enforcement officer, which he later pled guilty to, and in February, he was arrested a second time in Scott County, Kentucky, accused of intimidating a partition in a legal process. A woman told deputy she feared for her life while inside a home with someone who had a weapon. Investigator said Farthing texted her in an attempt to influence her statements to police. He also faces an active hit and run charge in Fayette County.

33:14 He appeared in district court Monday, pled not guilty to the latest burglary in marijuana charges, and so his next court date is scheduled for April the twenty seventh. The rapid succession of arrests has drawn national attention to the cautionary tale of sudden wealth. Farthing has not commented publicly on the latest charges, and his attorney told reporters quote unquote, no comment after the arrangement. Kentucky Lottery officials have previously noted that winners are not required to undergo financial counseling, though they strongly encourage it. Farthing's case is the latest profile example, a high profile example of lottery winners facing personal and legal challenges after claiming life changing prizes. Yeah, and just quickly on this one. First of all, I remember hearing about this guy and in trouble several times.

34:01 But you've look. One hundred and sixty seven million dollars is an insane amount of money, even after taxes, an insane amount of money. And you steal fourteen thousand bucks, that's like stealing two dollars when you got that guy, maybe even a dollar. And whoever flees in a black Porsche. Yeah, he's I mean, this guy, he feels untouchable, is what I think just happened. All the things that he would want to do and how he would want to act out. Now he can afford the attorneys, he can afford to bond out, he can afford everything. And so he's wiling, is what it sounds like. And he's predisposed to it. His damn mine. You know, I had a friend, I still have a friend. He's still my friend that won the Louisiana lottery a while back, like years and years and years ago, and you know, it was really cool. He obviously wasn't this big.

34:49 But the first thing he did, from my understanding, was that he took care of his parents, you know, paid off their house and bought well that's. What a lot of people, yeah, and bought and bought a car, not mister Farlane. And when they bought a car, you know what, they bought a Mazda. So yeah, I ain't buying a Masda. But well, hey, you know nothing against Mazda is a great car. What I'm saying, I got one. Hundred and sixty seven million dollars, I'm buying. A They didn't win that big of a prize over but I'm just saying very sensible, very humble people. And then you see people that do this, and so much good could be done with that much money. Yeah, and you want to go just continue to terribiut it. Just don't break the law. I mean, you don't have to. You just sounded like what was the movie with U. You don't have to go give it to go fundme or whatever. And I think that'd be a great thing to do. And but just don't break the law.

35:37 You sound like Jim Carrey in that movie. Liar, liar, how about don't break the law, asshole. Yeah, I mean, come on, dude, get it, get it together. He's got a cool look about it and too he's like all tatted and he looks rough. But like, how about be a good person and don't don't go steal? Yeah? Hey everyone, Crime War Weekly has moved to its own new channel. We hope you've enjoyed this preview. To contain can you listening, Please follow the link referenced in the description of this podcast. Or simply search Crime Wier Weekly wherever you're listening. And don't forget to follow the show so you can be alerted when new episodes drop. Thanks for listening.