DENVER—Fifty-eight tickets confiscated from a scalper at Coors Field won’t go to waste after all.
Police had said they would keep the NL championship series tickets as evidence after they were confiscated from Charles Whitlock, 23, this week.
However, the Colorado Rockies agreed to reissue them so they could be donated to the nonprofit Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, Rockies spokesman Jay Alves said.
Whitlock said Sunday before Game 3 between Colorado and Arizona that he asked the nonprofit to distribute the tickets to kids and their families.
Whitlock said he had bought 60 tickets online and from the Coors Field box office for Games 3, 4 and 5 of the NLCS for about $5,280. His tickets were confiscated after he sold two to undercover police officers for triple the face value Wednesday, police said.
It is a misdemeanor to sell tickets for more than face value in Denver.
Whitlock allegedly was carrying a spreadsheet showing that he expected to make $14,000 on the tickets, police said.
“Being unemployed, I was looking for a way to quickly pay my bills. However, I used poor judgment and I was wrong,” Whitlock said in a written statement Sunday. Whitlock said the reissued tickets were in the spirit of making amends.
