A female and her partner are dealing with charges after the couple stole a winning $3 million lottery ticket and attempted to cash it in previously this year, according to authorities in Massachusetts.
Carly Nunes, 23, of Lakeville, is implicated of keeping a client's lottery game tickets back in January, while working as a cashier at a liquor shop. U.S. District Attorney Timothy Cruz stated the guy who purchased the tickets had inadvertently left the store without them, forgetting them in the lottery terminal tray.
Surveillance footage from inside the shop caught the minute when another customer alerted Nunes to the tickets, which she took and positioned behind the counter, according to Cruz.
Cruz stated the man searched for his ticket to verify, but quit when he could not discover it. That night, the numbers on among the guy's Mass Millions tickets were selected for the $3 million reward, BNN sibling station WPRI reports.
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The ticket didn't show up until a number of days later on, when Nunes and her partner and coworker, 32-year-old Joseph Reddem, of Manchester, New Hampshire, apparently attempted to cash it in at the Massachusetts State Lottery head office.
Cruz stated lottery workers confirmed the numbers on the ticket, but ended up being doubtful after overhearing Nunes and Reddem arguing over his share of the prize money. The ticket itself was likewise torn and burned, with Nunes declaring she had actually incorrectly harmed the ticket while eliminating it from her wallet, and burned it by unintentionally putting it on a pipeline.
Under examination, Nunes claimed she acquired the winning ticket near completion of her shift, on the day it was offered.
After investigators saw monitoring video of a client purchasing the ticket, Cruz said Nunes altered her story and informed them she had actually "inadvertently obtained the winning ticket."
Nunes has given that been charged with larceny from a building, attempted larceny, presentation of an incorrect claim and witness intimidation. Reddem was charged with tried extortion.
Detectives ultimately located the guy who acquired the winning ticket nearly a month later, who Cruz stated didn't recognize his costly mistake.
The Massachusetts State Lottery Commission plans to honor the victim's $3 million ticket, according to Cruz.
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