Recent $167m lottery winner arrested for allegedly stealing $12,000 in Kentucky

Burglary arrest was James Farthing’s latest run-in with the law after winning the Powerball jackpot last year

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A man who recently won a $167m Powerball lottery jackpot stands accused of stealing the relatively paltry sum of $12,000 after breaking into a house in his home state of Kentucky on Saturday, according to authorities who arrested him.

James Farthing’s arrest on Saturday on counts of burglary and illicit marijuana possession reportedly was at least his third since winning Kentucky’s most lucrative lottery prize ever.