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Jul 28, 2009 12:40 pm US/Eastern

Report: Two-Time Lottery Winner Has Sketchy Past

FALL RIVER (WBZ) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: Phillip Brunelle poses with the two lottery tickets he claims are winners.
Fall River Herald News
Click to enlarge 2 of 2: Phillip Daggett in a November 2006 file photo.
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The Fall River man who claims he won the lottery twice in one day is now under a cloud of suspicion.

29-year-old Phillip Brunelle told The Herald News he bought a Billion Dollar Bonanza scratch ticket early Sunday morning at the Tedeschi convenience store on East Main Street and won $1,000.

He claimed he went back to the store a few hours later, bought a $1,000,000 Money Mania scratch ticket, and then won $1 million.

So far, the Massachusetts State Lottery says it has not heard from Brunelle, who was once known as Phillip Daggett.

Daggett, who changed his name when he got married four months ago, has a long history of fraud, according to the paper.

In September 2008, Brockton police charged him with making a hoax phone call about a deadly shooting.

In January 2008, he reportedly used CPR to save an infant who swallowed a small light bulb.

In November 2006, he falsely claimed he became ill after eating a drug-laced taco at Taco Bell.

In 2004, he filed a complaint after claiming food at McDonald's made him sick.

WBZ attempted to contact Brunelle several times Monday, but he did not return any messages.

Daggett was also the bartender at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford when 18-year-old Jacob Robia attacked customers at the gay bar with a hatchet and a gun in February 2006.

Robida killed himself during a shootout with police in Arkansas days later.