AP Photo / Courtesy Michigan Lottery via Detroit News
In this photo provided by the Michigan Lottery, Amanda Clayton holds her $1 million lottery check.
By NBC News staff and wire services
ECORSE, Mich. -- A drug overdose may have killed Amanda Clayton, a?Detroit-area woman who won a $1 million lottery prize but kept collecting welfare benefits, police said Saturday.
Ecorse police Sgt. Cornelius Herring said Clayton, 25, of Lincoln Park was found dead about 9 a.m. Saturday at a home, The Associated Press said. Ecorse is?southwest of Detroit.?
Clayton won the $1 million prize in September.
In April, prosecutors accused Clayton of collecting $5,475 in food and medical benefits from August 2011 through March that she would not have received had she reported the lottery winnings and income from a job she held from June through October 2011. In June, she pleaded no contest to fraud and was?sentenced to nine months' probation in July.
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Her attorney has said Clayton repaid about $5,500, the AP reported.
"It's simply common sense that million-dollar lottery winners forfeit their right to public assistance," Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a statement.
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In April, Gov. Rick Snyder signed a law requiring lottery officials to tell Human Services about new winners, the AP said.
This article includes reporting by NBC News staff and Reuters.
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