Police arrest lottery ticket thief

Mar 22, 2006, 9:36 am (7 comments)

Texas Lottery

A routine audit of lottery tickets conducted by the Texas Lottery Commission showed that more than $37,000 in scratch-off tickets were missing from a Flower Mound convenience store.

The tickets were missing from a Diamond Shamrock station in the 220 block of Long Prairie Road.

Police later arrested a store employee, Joanna Diaz, on charges of theft.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

wizeguy's avatarwizeguy

Routine audit by the lottery? You'd think the stores would watch those things closer and realize that many missing!

 

tntea's avatartntea

Someone wasn't taught the proper bookkeeping to run a lotto store.

emilyg's avataremilyg

the store where i play - complete count at every shift change.

DoctorEw220's avatarDoctorEw220

it was the same with the plcae i used to work at.  at the end of every night, my boss would have me write down the instant ticket numbers, and then he would take a look at the sales reports for the day, and then he would count the drawer for the night.

LOTTOMIKE's avatarLOTTOMIKE

Routine audit by the lottery? You'd think the stores would watch those things closer and realize that many missing!

 

you sure are right about that.its the way it should be done.....

RJOh's avatarRJOh

Too many Ma & Pa stores selling tickets have to hire outside of family.  These stores depend on honest family members working cheap and non-family members aren't cheap or honest.  They usually go out of business without family support.

CASH Only

Too many Ma & Pa stores selling tickets have to hire outside of family.  These stores depend on honest family members working cheap and non-family members aren't cheap or honest.  They usually go out of business without family support.

That's mom & pop. Ma & Pa are two states with questionable online games.

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