We know the final score of the Miami-Tech game Saturday night.
But Tech police don't know the final number of counterfeit tickets officers, and other event staff, found in the hands of unsuspecting Hokie fans during the game.
Tech police chief, Debra Duncan, believed by the time it's all said and done, "hundreds" of fans might've gotten into the game with fake tickets, then were asked to leave. Duncan estimated even more might have suspected they had fakes, but stayed in the stadium.
"We haven't had [anything] of this magnitude before," Duncan said.
Christiansburg Hokies fan, Marti Whitaker, bought one of the fake tickets along with her fiance, and two friends.
"It made us all mad because all four of us had to leave because they sold us all [counterfeit] tickets," Whitaker said.
Whitaker said the group paid $500 to a scalper outside Cassell Coliseum shortly before kick-off.
Event staff accepted their tickets, but when they got to their seats, they discovered they didn't exist, Whitaker said.
A stadium employee later told them their tickets were counterfeit, and asked them to leave.
Whitaker went back home with her fiance to watch the rest of the game on television.
Her friends just happened to run into the man who sold them the fake tickets at a Blacksburg B.P. gas station on South Main Street.
Police moved in to arrest the man, and asked Whitaker to help identify him.
It was Whitaker's first game at Lane Stadium.
Duncan said the only way to keep from becoming the victim of a scam like Whitaker, is to never buy game tickets from scalpers.
Ticket scalping is legal in the commonwealth of Virginia, although Tech has rules against it. Officers who come into contact with scalpers ask them to leave university property, Duncan said.
Duncan advised if you do buy a ticket from a scalper, ask them for their identification. She said honest people trying to sell tickets most likely won't have a problem showing you their ID. Source>>>
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