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Powerball lottery winner's boyfriend bailed out of jail again

By Jennifer Brett
Jan 3, 2016
A North Carolina woman who pocketed  $88 million (after taxes) in a February 2015 Powerball Lotto drawing has spent $9 million to keep her boyfriend out of jail , my colleague George Mathis reported a couple of months ago.

The frequent guest of Hotel Graybar is out of the pokey once again after someone posted a $12 million bond. It seems 31-year-old Lamarr McDow was bailed out once again early Friday although authorities haven't said whether his  fiancé, Marie Holmes, was once again his benefactress, the AP reports.

McDow, aka "Hot Sauce,"  was arrested in November 2014 on criminal charges included heroin trafficking, Mathis reported in October. His girlfriend Holmes, soon after winning the $88 million, paid a $3 million bond to have him released.

Hot Sauce was arrested in July for failure to meet curfew requirements. His lady   put up another $6 million to spring him. He arrested again for having that gun while being a convicted felon. That time his bail was only $10,000 and he was quickly released.

This most recent arrest and bail involved a charge of violating conditions of his pre-trial release on previous drug-related charges, the AP reported.

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