Texas man arrested in Hot Lotto ticket investigation

DES MOINES - Authorities made a second arrest in the Hot Lotto ticket investigation Thursday night.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety's Division of Criminal Investigation and the Iowa Attorney General's Office have charged Robert Clark Rhodes II, 46, of Sugarland, Texas, with two counts of fraud, according to a release from DPS. Both counts of fraud are Class D felonies.

Iowa authorities arrested Rhodes in Texas on the night of March 20 with the help of Texas Lottery Enforcement officials, according to the release. He is being held on a $500,000 cash-only bond in the Fort Bend County Jail where he will await extradition proceedings to bring him back to Iowa.

The three-year investigation into the purchase of a winning Hot Lotto ticket that was claimed, and then later forfeited, is ongoing. The first arrest in the investigation was made in January.