Employee charged with stealing lottery tickets

Comment #11

justxploring — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:12:09 GMT

The store owner had a system of tracking ticket sales that was helpful in determining which tickets were stolen, Pinner related.

I know everyone here is saying she is stupid, and I agree 100%. However, the word that first came to mind was desperate since someone went through all of this for $100 bucks.

The reason I quoted the above line from the article, is that I thought all terminals could track this, and really have to simply by design. Every FL ticket I get has all sorts of code... [ More ]

Comment #10

Ladyluck2005 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:44:34 GMT

What an idiot. Thats all I have to say.

Comment #9

richnc — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:17:23 GMT

odds of getting caught 1 to 1?

odds of my winning powerball jackpot 1 in 146,107,962

But I got my ticket for the next draw. I know I will win.

Call me a dreamer?? Actually I just want to help education. lol

Comment #8

stephi — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:21:34 GMT

I agree 100

Comment #7

DoubleDown — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:41:43 GMT

Stupid is as stupid does...

Comment #6

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:36:47 GMT

i bet if they knew these were able to be tracked they wouldn't have done it.that guard was stupid in idaho.he should've known the drill....

Comment #5

wizeguy — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:40:27 GMT

You're quite right, bellyache. And the two reported here today were rather young. Besides jail time and/or fines this will likely haunt them jobwise for the rest of their lives. I'm guessing they might have thought because it was so small an amount of money it would go unnoticed.

Comment #4

bellyache — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:29:49 GMT

These people steal these tickets which can be tracked and are usually not big winners in the first time and they get jail time and a big fine. Dumb I say.

Comment #3

chasingadream — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:38:18 GMT

this is always the norm when a state starts up a new lottery. It happend in tennessee, oklahoma and now NC. I guess the ppl stealin the tickets just don't realize that they are tracked and can also be canceled.......dizzy

Comment #2

Tenaj — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:19:35 GMT

The state has operated its education lottery since March 30 and already the commission has investigated dozens of cases of suspects stealing tickets, breaking and entering, committing larceny, as well as various degrees of fraud committed by retailers and players alike who are falsely reporting winnings and altering lottery tickets, Mittag said.

tst. tst. tst.

They should make the punishment stiffer. ?$2,000 bond. Come on.

Retailers should get it worst. We need to be able to trus... [ More ]

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:42:40 GMT

The winnings from the stolen tickets totaled $102.

IDIOT !!!

Remember : You can't fix stupid

DD

Employee charged with stealing lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:21:02 GMT

An employee of a Bath convenience store allegedly made off with 59 North Carolina Lottery tickets Saturday and cashed in the winnings a day later.

Several of the winning stolen tickets were converted to cash and a money order at a convenience store in Washington Sunday. The winnings from the stolen tickets totaled $102.

Jamie DeJong Carpenter, 24, of 23 Deerfield Lane, Chocowinity, was charged with one count of larceny by employee and two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses Wed... [ More ]