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A Tennessee gas station clerk’s plan to cheat a customer out of a $1 million lottery ticket and to claim it for himself was thwarted after store video captured the clerk pretending to throw the ticket away and then celebrating after retrieving it from the trash, according to prosecutors. He went to Tennessee Lottery’s district office in Nashville on July 16 to cash the seven-figure winning ticket, according to court documents. But lottery employees became suspicious after analyzing Mr. Patel’s identification and hearing his story about finding the ticket in the trash, court documents said. The lottery employees then asked police to review video from the Shell station in Murfreesboro where the ticket was bought, the local station WSMV reported. “He knew it was a winning ticket,” Lt. Steve Craig of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said in an interview on Wednesday.
Persons: Meer Patel, Patel, , Steve Craig Organizations: Shell, Sheriff’s Locations: Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tenn, Tennessee Lottery’s, Nashville, Rutherford
One winning ticket had a prize of $40 and the other was the $1 million ticket. A clerk at the gas station stole the ticket and tried to collect the prize, authorities said. Store video obtained by investigators of the Tennessee Lottery shows Meet Patel scanning the tickets, according to authorities. Patel then placed the $1 million ticket in the trash, authorities said. Later, the video allegedly shows him taking out the trash, after which he removes the winning ticket and puts it in his pocket.
Persons: CNN —, Patel, it’s, Steve Craig, WTVF, Mr, ” Det, Dennis Ward, we’re, ’ ” Craig, , ” Craig, Ward, Organizations: CNN, Sheriff’s, Tennessee Lottery, WTVF, Tennessee Lottery’s Nashville, Tennessee Lottery Commission, Adult Detention Locations: Tennessee, Murfreesboro , Tennessee, Rutherford, Rutherford County
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