How many of us have chanted that refrain, daydreaming about how we'd quit our jobs, grab our winnings and head to a secluded beach with the family to live in blissful paradise? Or whatever your imagination conjures life-after-hitting-the-jackpot to be. Of course it hardly ever turns out that way. We’re always hearing about lottery winners who blew it all. But Ronnie Music Jr., 45, a former maintenance supervisor in Georgia, has taken the storyline to a new depth. Music, who won $3 million in a scratch-off lottery game in Georgia last year, invested his winnings in meth. And got busted.“Music decided to test his luck by sinking millions of dollars of lottery winnings into the purchase and sale of crystal meth,”U.S. Attorney Ed Tarver said in a Justice Department statement. “As a result of his unsound investment strategy, Music now faces decades in a federal prison.”Music pleaded guilty last week to federal drug trafficking and firearm charges, according to Jacksonville, Fla.,TV station News4Jax. He and his cohorts were arrested in September while trying to sell about 11 pounds of crystal meth that Music had bought with his lottery winnings, the Justice Department news release said. As part of the investigation, authorities “seized more than$1 million worth of methamphetamine, a large cache of firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, multiple vehicles, and more than $600,000 in cash.”The short-lived millionaire pleaded guilty last week and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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