Investigators from the California Lottery are asking for the public's help in locating suspects who broke into a Lucky grocery store in Fremont over the weekend and made off with a Scratchers vending machine.
The thieves broke into the store, which is located on the 40000 block of Mission Boulevard, about 3 a.m. on Saturday.
Police located the vending machine a few hours later just a couple blocks from the store location. Most of the cash had already been removed from the machine before the theft and Fremont police did recover most of the stolen tickets.
Still, as a precaution the Lottery has "flagged" all suspected ticket numbers that may have been stolen.
All Lottery tickets are traceable and as soon as the suspects attempt to cash any winning tickets in their possession, Lottery investigators will immediately know their location. The Lottery is working with the Fremont Police Department on this case.
If you have information that could lead to the arrest of the suspect in the surveillance photo below, Lottery investigators ask that you call them at 1-800-LOTTERY and select option 4 to speak with an investigator.
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That's alot of work just to get a little bit of cash...lol
Whats a matter californians, winning the powerball jackpot a 2nd time in a row ( on march 1st) right after winning the 400 million one wasn't enough!?
I guess not
they'll get caught soon enough and personally I hope they get the chair
In the news today:
Thieves Hoping To Get "lucky" At Lucky's.
California lottery fans are getting tired of losing. Some players are actually taking the matter into their own hands ...and right out the back door! These guys took the "self service machine" to a whole new level.
Aww..I miss Lucky's. I grew up in that store!
Waiting for the story that shows them on tape trying to cash the winners in.
How desperate of them. I hope they go ahead and cash in the tickets themselves and be caught and not use someone else to do it for them, who might in turn be in trouble.
It's disgruntled LP members tired of losing.
prime suspect = noise-gate
It could be the frustrated golfer on vacation.
Suspects ????? .....My money is on Thrifty....he's always flashin' those hundred dollar bills and saying how he didn't play the lottery today only to play some day...
I think it was a girl disguised as a fat man.
I say it's a Latino male-notice the thick" love handles"... that sweater is pulled down in a vain attempt to cover those suckers up, its a dead giveaway. Just saying..
It's disgruntled california LP members tired of losing. There I fixed it for you.
More like losing there brains. Losing the lottery, no. They won powerball twice in a row, the 400 mil and then a 60 mil on march 1st. It's apparent the lottery isn't random, and has quite a bias.
I always shopped at Safeway, across the bay in Mountain View!!!! They will be caught.
Seeing as California has a population of over 38,000,000 compared to Wisconsin's almost 6 million it appears the bias is only in the amount of people,hence the ticket buyers.
Wish I could see the looks on their faces when they try to collect on winning tickets (If they managed to break the machine open) and instead they end up getting cuffs thrown on them and thrown into jail!!!!
Looks like the same fat guy in the four pictures. May since he/she is not so bright, he/she had to wear bright long sleeve clothing, during a burglary, to compensate for the obvious lack of grey matter. Could be an inside job for all we know.
This doesn't surprise me. Here in Louisiana, video poker was legalized back in the 1990s and many bars and restaurants installed poker machines. A new crime was breaking into these businesses after closing and taking the cash from the machines. Those machines often have a lot of money in them so it's very tempting. I don't know if anyone has ever actually stolen a poker machine, but many have been broken into around the state.
Louisiana hasn't had lottery vending machines for all that long and there aren't many of them around the state. Oddly enough, there's only one here in Baton Rouge and we're the state capitol and lottery headquarters. When I go to the store that has it, it seems like nobody is ever using it. For all I know, I might be the only one.
Lol, I doubt he knows how to math.