Employee Jailed After Stealing Gambling Lottery Tickets

Lottery gambling tickets are a way for people to make quick cash. The tickets can pay all the way up to $1 million. Most, however, pay off in the range of $5 to $1,000.

The lure of the money sometimes makes employees at locations that sell the tickets envious of winners. By constantly cashing the winning gambling tickets for customers, the employee can see how much can be won.

One employee from a Winn Dixie supermarket was overly enticed by the winning tickets she was cashing. Heather Michelle Wright, 18, of Mulberry, was arrested and charged with stealing $600 worth of lottery tickets from her employer.

Wright took the 'Gold Rush' tickets. They sell for $20, and have many winning $500 tickets to go along with other winning denominations. Wright then took the stolen tickets and cashed the winning ones at various convenience stores around town.

Wright was free on $1,000 bail on Friday. She did not reveal how much money she actually won from the tickets, and authorities did not know the amount either.

Customer service representatives such as Wright deal with lottery tickets all day long while on duty. Stores such as Winn Dixie do large volume amounts of lottery ticket sales, and once in a while, the service representatives try and steal some of the tickets.

May 25, 2008
Posted By April Gardner
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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