The State - News from Dec. 16, 1986

Terry Garrett, a former heroin addict who won $1 million in the California Lottery in August, will be the first lottery millionaire to spend time in prison. The 40-year-old San Diego man pleaded guilty to petty theft and will be sent to the California Institution for Men at Chino for a 90-day diagnostic study before he is sentenced for stealing two bottles of cognac from a liquor store a month before he won his prize. San Diego Superior Court Judge Ross Tharp dismissed a charge of possession of 10 ounces of cocaine for sale that was brought against him after he became a millionaire. But Garrett lost his 1986 Buick Skylark, which was seized by authorities after his Sept. 18 arrest, as part of the government’s seizure of assets by drug defendants. Garrett, who has several heroin and narcotic convictions, remains free on $50,000 bail.