Lakeville retailer clerk accused of striving to cash $3M lottery ticket shopper remaining behind

LAKEVILLE – A Lakeville liquor keep clerk is accused of making an attempt to dollars in a successful lottery ticket value $3 million right after a client remaining it behind.

The Plymouth County District Lawyer states 23-12 months-aged Carly Nunes of Lakeville went to Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters to obtain the revenue on the Mega Hundreds of thousands rapid decide ticket.

Investigators say on January 17, the sufferer, who was not identified, acquired a bag of chips, two Mega Thousands and thousands rapid picks, and two tickets for the Mass Cash lottery at Lakeville Liquors & Sector, which was formerly Savas Liquors. The gentleman added a multiplier to his Mega Thousands and thousands tickets to increase the jackpot prize. He remaining the retail store with just the bag of chips, leaving the tickets in the lottery tray. Following leaving the retailer, the guy searched for the tickets but assumed he missing them.

Prosecutors reported another buyer purchased lottery tickets about 45 minutes just after the sufferer left. The consumer gained the two added tickets that had been obtained by the victim, and gave them back again to Nunes, who rang up the transaction.

Two times later, 32-yr-aged Joseph Reddem, a co-worker at the retail store, drove Nunes and her boyfriend to the lottery headquarters in Dorchester.

Lottery officials grew to become suspicious when the winning ticket was torn and burned, and surveillance movie captured Nunes and Reddem arguing about dollars. “Reddem allegedly produced demands of the jackpot and Nunes knowledgeable Reddem that she would ‘only shell out him $200,000,'” prosecutors mentioned.

Nunes explained to Massachusetts Lottery investigators that she procured the ticket toward the close of her change, and it burned when she accidentally put it on a pipe. Surveillance video clip from the retail store confirmed the ticket was bought by the victim. Nunes later on admitted that she did not purchase the ticket herself.

Lottery officials say it took a thirty day period, but they tracked down the rightful winner by putting up flyers in the Lakeville location. The Lottery intends to honor the victim’s assert on the $3 million prize.

Nunes is billed with larceny from a constructing, attempted larceny, presentation of a bogus assert, and witness intimidation. Reddem is charged with attempted extortion.