Feb 11, 2008 4:09 pm US/Eastern
Sex Offender Wins $10 Million In Lottery
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Daniel Snay, pictured here with lottery executive director Mark Cavanagh, after collecting the first installment of his $10 million prize last month.
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Snay is a level 3 sex offender, considered the most dangerous kind with a high risk to re-offend.
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When truck driver Daniel Snay won $10 million on a scratch ticket last month, it wasn't the first time his picture had been taken by the state of Massachusetts.
The
sex offender registry shows the divorced father of five was convicted of indecent assault and battery six times in the 1970's and 80's - two of those times on a child under 14.
Snay, 56, of Uxbridge, had been living and working in Massachusetts since 2004. In January, he paid $20 for a "Billion Dollar Blockbuster" scratch ticket at a Hopedale convenience store and hit the jackpot.
When a publicity photograph of Snay picking up his first of 20 annual checks for $500,000 Jan. 30 was posted on the Lottery's
Web site, residents called the Massachusetts Lottery Commission about his background.
Lottery officials say he gambled legally, but Snay's story caught the attention of police in neighboring Connecticut, where Snay had lived for several years and allegedly had not alerted authorities that he was moving out of state, as required by law.
Connecticut Trooper William Tate said Snay could face up to five years in prison if convicted of failing to notify authorities of his change of address, a felony in that state. Snay hasn't confirmed his address for the Connecticut registry since May 2004, even though that state requires address verification every 90 days, Tate said.
"We're trying to determine when he moved, why he didn't register with us and whether any charges are warranted," Tate said.
Uxbridge police chief Scott Freitas told WBZ Snay has complied with the law since he was arrested in 2004 for failing to register after moving back to Massachusetts from Connecticut.
But the chief said he has a major concern about a possible lifestyle change.
"It's when things get out of control when studies have shown sex offenders are most dangerous," Freitas said.
Snay's lawyer, Joseph Fabbricotti, said his client's lifestyle hasn't changed, but Snay is thinking real hard about his future.
Fabbricotti said Snay is not prohibited from playing the lottery and hopes to help his five kids with the money.
This is the second time in recent months that a convicted felon has won the lottery in Massachusetts. Last month, a Barnstable Superior Court judge approved an agreement to allow convicted bank robber Timothy Elliott to keep a $1 million lottery prize even though he was prohibited from gambling under the terms of his probation.
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