Tennessee Store Clerk Arrested For Stealing Winning Lottery Ticket

Whew! Roomies, how far would you go for cash? It appears like a Tennessee retailer clerk was keen to take it to prison ranges over a profitable lottery ticket. Now, Meet Patel is out of a job and up with the prison justice division!

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Retailer Clerk Steals Lottery Ticket

A person grew to become a millionaire final week, due to authorities who knowledgeable him of his lottery win. CNN reviews that the lottery winner discovered of his $1 million jackpot when police advised him his ticket was stolen.

The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned the incident started when the person purchased two $20 Diamond and Gold lottery tickets at a Shell fuel station in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. PEOPLE reported that the client had the 23-year-old clerk examine if the scratched lottery tickets have been winners.

Detective Steve Craig advised WTVF that you just solely must scratch off the bar code to examine to see in case you’ve received.

“In the event you scratch off the entrance bar code, it’ll inform you if it’s a winner or not, no matter whether or not you scratch off every little thing displaying how a lot you received,” Craig defined.

CNN revealed that one of many man’s tickets had a $40 prize, whereas the opposite was price $1 million. Authorities mentioned footage confirmed the Tennessee retailer clerk first throwing the $1 million ticket within the trash after which pocketing it later.

“Mr. Patel is then seen later within the video celebrating within the retailer after scratching off the entrance of the ticket and studying it was a $1 million winner,” Detective Dennis Ward mentioned within the information launch.

What’s Subsequent For The Meet Patel?

Per CNN, prizes over $200,000 should be claimed on the Tennessee Lottery’s Nashville workplace. Nonetheless, Meet Patel’s try to say the prize raised suspicion.

“He went to the Tennessee Lottery Fee to say the ticket as his personal and thru their regular line of questioning there have been sufficient pink flags for them to say, ‘Hey, it’s essential to get all your affairs so as and are available again to us and we’re gonna maintain on to the ticket,” Detective Craig advised WTVF.

As reported by CNN, Meet Patel is being detained on the Rutherford County Grownup Detention Heart on a theft cost exceeding $250,000. His bond is at the moment $100,000, and his listening to is about for July 30.

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