Man cashing in $1k lottery ticket arrested for stealing $10k worth of tickets

Man Cashing in $1k Lottery Ticket Arrested for Stealing $10k Worth of Tickets
Man Cashing in $1k Lottery Ticket Arrested for Stealing $10k Worth of Tickets


There's a man who broke into a convenience store in Florida, where he was going after some scratch-off lottery tickets.

He allegedly then made off with about $10,000 worth of scratchcards - surely giving him a decent chance of winning on at least one of them!

Sadly he wasn't the only to realise this: the police were onto him as well.

What happened next was that he reportedly went to another store to cash in a winning ticket worth $1,000.

However his clever plan was quickly foiled - when the store clerk scanned the ticket, it came up as stolen and because of that, the employee asked to take a picture of him.

This picture was later used to bring the man in to the police.

He was picked up fairly quickly after that and has since been charged with burglary, grand theft and dealing in stolen property.


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