Clerk Steals Winning Lottery Ticket and Attempts to Steal Bonus with Colleague

A man in Massachusetts (Massachusetts) forgot to take away the lottery ticket after he bought it in a store. After being discovered by a female clerk, he took the lottery ticket to the prize without permission and found that he won US$3 million (about NT$91.8 million) . Later, the clerk and another colleague tried to steal the bonus, but the lottery company found out and the bonus returned to the winner.

According to “CBS NEWS” reports, a man in Lakeville, Massachusetts, USA went to a local store on January 17 to buy a pack of potato chips and 4 lottery tickets. Potato chips, accidentally left the lottery ticket on the spot. About 45 minutes later, another customer found the leftover lottery ticket and gave it to the female clerk Carly (Carly Nunes) for safekeeping.

Later, Carly took the lottery ticket to the prize match without permission, and accidentally discovered that the lottery ticket had won US$3 million. She and her colleague Joseph (Joshph Reddem) stole the prize money. The next day, Carly, her boyfriend and Joseph went to the lottery company to receive the prize .

At that time, although the employees of the lottery company found that the lottery tickets were damaged, they still distributed the prize money to Carly and his party. Unexpectedly, Carly told Joseph that she was only willing to share 200,000 US dollars (approximately NT$6 million) with him. The two had a big fight because of this, which made the employees of the lottery company suspicious and called the police. The truth of the matter.

Later, in order to find the real winner of the bonus, the lottery act posted reward notices everywhere, and finally found the real winner on February 13, and successfully claimed the bonus back. Afterwards, Carly was also charged by the police with burglary, attempted theft, false claims and witness intimidation; Redham was charged with attempted extortion.