Store clerks seen on camera stealing lottery tickets

Comment #12

OldSchoolPa — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:35:52 GMT

I stopped playing scratch-ifs when the Illinois Lottery pulled shenanigans of discontinuing games in which the top prizes had not been won. I would check online and see all 4 top prizes of $5M or $7M or $15M still available and drive around to a number of different convenience stores searching for the game. Many locations would report that someone from the lottery commission had come and taken those. I would buy up as many as I could at the locations that still had them and go on a winning roll

Comment #11

uprrman — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:48:33 GMT

you can't fix stupid

Comment #10

play4shekels — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:51:53 GMT

Those two are obviously the product of some careful inbreeding.

Comment #9

CDanaT — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:04:54 GMT

I will just abide by the age old statement It's easier to STAY of trouble rather than GET out of trouble

Comment #8

Ron5995 — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:47:12 GMT

Often it's players who get ripped off, not the store. The owner is lucky he didn't lose more. Regardless, lottery retailers and their employees shouldn't be permitted to buy / play lottery tickets at their own location(s). That would eliminate much abuse, and better protect players. Not holding my breath for that to happen, since it's more profitable the way it is for lotteries.

Hopefully, the $2500 Cash4Life winner was just luck and not stolen from a player. Glad to read they're investigatin... [ More ]

Comment #7

LiveInGreenBay — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:27:45 GMT

They aren't doing any jail time? You kidding me! This just encourages others to do the same. Unbelievable.

Comment #6

noise-gate — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:22:33 GMT

l could be wrong, but Jeff comes off as too nice laid back a guy imo. These two took way too much advantage of his kindness.

Comment #5

Dead_Aim — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:14:51 GMT

wow, the exact reason I don't play scratchers.

In all, the two workers stole more than $21,000 in tickets between November 2016 and January of 2017 and the Hoosier Lottery paid out more than $6,000 dollars in winnings.

such a pathetic payout. And if they had actually paid for the tickets more than likely a 3rd of the winnings would have been pushes or free tickets only. They wouldn't have even netted the measly 6k.

Comment #4

JADELottery — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:12:13 GMT

Wonder if those non-winning Cash4Life were passed off as mistake tickets to unsuspecting players.

Funny thing this morning is we had another discussion with a store clerk at that Kwik Trip store we frequent.

As we were paying for our coffee, we noticed a ticket laying on the counter.

We ask the clerk if that was someone's ticket they left behind.

He said, No, that's a non-winner. Do you want it? .

Ha-ha , we laughed.

We told him we had to report it the last time we were sold a... [ More ]

Comment #3

music* — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:31:02 GMT

Thank You rtv6 and Lottery Post Staff. At least they will have to pay restitution and this will be on their record. This should also upset the regular players who were not able to win because the winning tickets were stolen.

What surprised me most was when the store manager said, jeopardize their family name .

These two thieves are dumb criminals. Maybe it is best to keep them out of jail where they would be trained on how to be smarter criminals.

Comment #2

Raven62 — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:29:27 GMT

Surveillance Cameras: If You Got'em Use'em

Comment #1

MzDuffleBaglady — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:34:59 GMT

Wow

Store clerks seen on camera stealing lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:12:14 GMT

Includes video report

Two former store clerks are in hot water after surveillance video captured them stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of scratch-off lottery tickets for months.

Former store clerk Reagan Santana Richardson is set to be sentenced Friday in Fayette County for her involvement in the theft of scratch-off lottery tickets at Miller's Discount Tobacco store in Connersville, Indiana, located at 704 Eastern Avenue.

Richardson has been offered a plea deal that will not... [ More ]