Police No.’. _ 05-406982 Court) —OSATAE
STATEOF OREGON)
: ss. PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVIT
BUNTY OF JACKSON )
Tae undersigned police officer, aftr fist being duly sworn upon oath do hereby afi thatthe following information is rue othe
babtof my knowledge and belicf:
NAME OF ARRESTEE: Goodenow, Christina Elizabeth
LODGING OFFICER: J. Mecham AGENCY: Oregon State Police
{TE OF ARREST: 10-27-05 TIME OF ARREST: 0935
1E(S) ALLEGED: Cheating, Computer Crime
DATE OF CRIME(S): 10-09-05
ITNESS INFORMATION —
FELLNAME: Comett,Incz (deceased) DATEOF BIRTH: 03-18-33
NAME: State of Oregon DATE OF BR’
LOCATION OF CRIME(S) IN JACKSON CO. 1775N 10" St, Central Point (Pair City Market)
BRIEF SUMMARY OF PROBABLE CAUSE:
In August of 2005, Christa Goodenow started using a credit card that had been sent to her house, The credit card was inthe name of
her deceased mother-inaw, Inez. Cornett. Goodenow was desperate for money, and used the ereit card for cash advances and for
fraudulent purchases all over Jackson County. She used the card at retail stores, gas stations restaurants and began buying lottery
tickets at the Fair City Market in Central Point. She would buy large groups of lottery tickets (60 ~ 90 ata tine) and had spent
approximately $1,000.00 doliars purchasing Lottery Scratch Tickets onthe stolen creditcard (two employees at Fair City Market
picked Goodenow froma photo line-up as the woman they knew as “Inez Cornett” who bad been purchasing large numbers of lottery
soratch tickets from their store using a credit card). On 10-09-05 she bought a group of lottery tickets withthe stolen / fraudulent
creditcard, and one ofthe tickets she had purchased with the card was a $1,000,000,00 dollar winning ticket. She realized sho might
have a problem due to the fect that she had purchased the winning ticket withthe stolen credit card. The creditcard used to buy the
ticket was in the name “Inez Comett” but she placed her eal name (Christina Goodenow) on the back of the winmmng ticket. She then
dyed her bar a different color and drove to Salem to redeem her ticket (via a Lottery Employee who would use the Lottery Computer
System to check the tickets validity) and collect her money. On 10-12-05 she elaimed her prize and was awarded a check for
'$33,500,00 ($50,000.00 a year for twenty years, minus taxes). After receiving the check for $33,500.00 she paid off the $12,000.00
dollar balance that she owed on the card in her mother-in-law’s name.
On 10.27.05 we contacted Goodenow at her residence in White City. Her Probation Officer (PO Wyatt) was with us. Inher room we
found a lock box that contained the credit car belonging to Tez Comett and a large ammount of cash ($1,300.00 dollars). Under
Mirande, Goodenow admitted to ‘She stated that she had started using the card because her boyfriend (Chris Cornett) had
Teft her destitute and she money.
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ates strict Attomey’s office hereby requests exemption from public disclosure ofthe Probable
. Said request atisies the statutory criteria of ORS 192.501(2) and al other relevant statutes and
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find probable cause exists to believe the arrestee committed the crime).
| find insufficient probable cause exits, based on the information provided herein.
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