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Man arrested after snatching lottery tickets from player

Man arrested after snatching lottery tickets from player

Posted: 2/22/2008 11:59:03 AM

California Lottery

A California man is in jail after he robbed a woman of her lottery tickets and later fled from officers, police said.

The robbery occurred around 10:40 p.m. Sunday as a woman left Lone Tree Liquors in Antioch, California, and was heading toward the 2700 block of Tregallas Road, police said. That's when a man approached her, and after a struggle, wrested away some lottery tickets she had just bought.

Witnesses quickly found an Antioch police officer and described the robber. The officer tracked down a man matching the description, but the man ran away.

After a chase through a residential neighborhood that included fence-jumping and running along a highway onramp, the officer caught up with the suspect and detained him after a short struggle. Responding officers later found the lottery tickets he is suspected of stealing.

The suspect was identified as 26-year-old David Thomason. He was booked into West County Jail on suspicion of robbery and obstructing a police officer, and is being held on $50,000 bail.

Source: Contra Costa Times

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Posted: February 22, 2008, 12:07 pm - IP Logged Top

All that trouble for someones lottery tickets, which odds are weren't winners. Evil Looking

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"Suspicion" of robbery??? You mean they're not sure?

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I agree. and the concept of him being a "person of interest" with a 50k bail.

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"suspect"?

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Did the lady get her tickets back?  They were probably big winners.

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All of that unneccessary headache for tickets that odds were not winners.  Trauma for the lady and jail time for the robber.  Stupidy knows no bounds.

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I read the article entirely different then with a scoff. THe dude robbed her and all people can say stuff about are the tickets. Yes, lets disregard the lady and disregard the system that allows us to have police available to aide the public. Im more shocked at the responses then I am at the unfortunate circumstance this lady endured.

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I read the article entirely different then with a scoff. THe dude robbed her and all people can say stuff about are the tickets. Yes, lets disregard the lady and disregard the system that allows us to have police available to aide the public. Im more shocked at the responses then I am at the unfortunate circumstance this lady endured.

So you read the article differently. And? It's an article and people commented and chose to focus on something else. It's not a big deal.

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Posted: February 22, 2008, 11:35 pm - IP Logged Top

Innocent till proven guilty. I would plea bargain if I were that guy. Yes, he is an idiot.Bang Head