Gwinnett County police are searching a woman they say duped unsuspecting football fans out of tens of thousands of dollars they gave her for tickets to the Super Bowl in Atlanta and other sporting events.
Between mid-2018 and earlier this year, 40-year-old Leah Marie Evers allegedly promised several people tickets to a number of sporting events — including Super Bowl LIII in February — in exchange for money.
The problem, police said Friday, is that those who paid never got their tickets.
Evers is accused of deceiving fans from unincorporated Duluth, unincorporated Suwanee, the city of Atlanta and parts of Florida, police said. The Gwinnett victims alone reported losing nearly $76,000.
According to police reports, one man told investigators he deposited $24,361 into Evers’ Paypal account over several months in exchange for tickets that he and his wife never received.
Another woman, who told police she and Evers had been friends for more than five years, said she paid nearly $42,000 for a suite at the Atlanta Falcons-Dallas Cowboys game and 14 Super Bowl tickets, police reports show.
Investigators said Evers has several aliases, including Leah Luckie, Leah Severs and Leah Severs-Luckie. She is known to pass herself off as a lawyer and is believed to be a flight risk, authorities said.
In addition to the Gwinnett warrants, Evers is wanted in other parts of Georgia and in Iowa, police said. She is charged in Gwinnett with two counts of computer theft and one count of theft by conversion.
In early February, a Lawrenceville man was arrested in California after he allegedly scammed six people — including his own mother — out of more than $750,000 they had given him for Super Bowl tickets.
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Anyone with information about Evers’ whereabouts is asked to call Gwinnett detectives at 770-513-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477. A cash reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case.
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