TACOMA, Wash. — A Jamaican man pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to wire fraud for his lottery scheme that cost an elderly victim more than $550,000, according to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
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Roshard Andrew Carty, 34, was arrested in Jamaica on August 21, 2025, after being indicted in November 2024.
He arrived in the Western District of Washington for arraignment on October 23, 2025.
According to records filed in the case, Carty first contacted the 73-year-old woman in 2020.
He posed as an employee of Publisher’s Clearinghouse and claimed the victim won $22 million and a car in the lottery, but that she needed to pay taxes and fees to access her winnings.
He convinced the woman, a resident of Vancouver, Washington, that the FBI was recording the…