PA State Police Open Criminal Investigation Into Sheriff Candidate’s $50,000 Gun Raffle

Mar 5, 2015

piccinini-gun-raffle — Piccinini's gun raffle ticket / photo via Facebook

The Pennsylvania State Police have opened a criminal investigation into a gun raffle being run by a Republican candidate for Beaver County Sheriff to fund his political campaign. Sam Piccinini has been selling raffle tickets for chances to win one of 39 firearms. He has been advertising the raffle on this Facebook account, where he…

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John Paul is an award-winning investigative journalist and founder of BeaverCountian.com. He reports full time for the site with a focus on public watchdog journalism.

PA State Police Open Criminal Investigation Into Sheriff Candidate’s $50,000 Gun Raffle

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