Clerk Accused of Trying to Claim Lottery Winner’s $3M Prize 

Yeah, this was like Dumb and Dumber. 😂😂

your making stuff up. your a red flag. your lying

@@loveforeignaccents 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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​@@GointothelightCarlie? Is that you??

The guy left them at the store. To say this is stealing or scamming is ridiculous

he should help that young lady, under the pressure she have to face only. that was not easy for her.

​@@lightoftruth8672that is stealing.

@@bigkmoviesandgames yes but not everybody thinks like you. White people steal all the time. and a lot more like fake investment. Scams. etc.

@@bigkmoviesandgames after she waited for him to come back.

Hoodie up, slouching, rolling her eyes, claiming she is not guilty. Despicable..

She's a piece of s***. Her parents must be so proud.

Looks like a druggie looking for next fix, she probably thought of unlimited cocaine, meth or whatever the hell she does when she saw the winning numbers.

She’s literally a crackhead lol

What a brat

I would've done the exact same as you

Exactly that’s what anyone should do

why is there a comma there?

The real noob here is that convenient store owner who hired her. Was he blind, how did she pass the interview?

I just yell....HEY YOU FORGOT YOUR LOTTERY WINNERS LOL

It’s always them Mexican illegals

Bro giving money to the church is a tax write off. Nothing more

Nah he has to after all this or he is gonna face backlash, read the world bro.

He hasn't found out he's losing 50% to taxes yet......... watch him turn in to a monster then!

She would’ve been dead within a month

@@MasterMayhem78 I won’t argue that point.

She would’ve overdosed

@@MasterMayhem78 She would have had something bad happen to her, by the driver or friends.

Money corruption

How is the Store Clerk a Scammer? She didn't scam anyone.

@@redsocks771 When she lied to the lotto people and claimed she bought the ticket herself you could call that a scam.

Yeah, and remember to thank your mom for bringing you here. Smh

We’ve always lived in a scammer’s world

Exactly smh dum illegals from Mexico don’t know how to act in America

Also the owner of the store gets a piece of it so I'm sure he would have also.

That's a good point. The ball is on his court at that point and hearing how he gave some of it to charity is a good indicator he would have given her a nice chunk. Either way, that lady did not look like a decent person with moral character. I hope she gets justice served to her.

Exactly my thought! I know I would have! Then I would have disappeared! LOL! 😂

Yes 🙌 if that was my ticket and she brought it out to me I would’ve came back and given her a nice chunk of change.

At the age of 60 something, I will say he honestly forgot it. As a former gas station clerk myself, I feel your pain tho. Usually I’ll would notice and call them back to the counter if they haven’t reached the door.

That happens to me sometimes too, for me it’s because I’m focusing on the cashing, and not focusing on the amount of stuff I bought

No different, when people don't check the receipt from their purchase and find out later they were overcharged. If they look at all.

It totally happens. You just space out or your thinking about something else. I’ve done it

I agree

_"keep the person who won the money identity a secret"_ - Negative. If they keep the person who won a secret, the Store Clerk would have kept the money.

😂

If that was the case, the little b**** would be rich and we wouldn't be watching this.

That makes no sense. Try again. Maybe get some sunlight.

she literally tried to steal his money ☕️

pretty shameless🤦‍♂

Yes, but you can clearly see that the girl is a tweaker.

Prison is a little much in my opinion ???

for finding something someone lost? guess she shoulda thrown it in the trash and the guy shoulda got nothing

she's on meth

It's standard to pled not guilty at arraignment.

Yeah, what Ilovewhitepeople said - you plead not guilty hoping to get a plea agreement to a lesser charge later. The idea being it saves the courts money if you work a plea deal, so that's why offenders plead not guilty.

All the while tweaking with her jaw, just an all-around trashbag

Doesn't matter how much evidence is stacked against you, you never plead guilty at an arraignment. You wait for your defense to work out a deal with the state and then you can plea guilty. Anyone that pleas guilty at an arraignment is stupid.

Tip maybe if you get arrested always plead not guilty even if the evidence is against you

yeah, fr he very likely would have

yeah they say to write on the back surprised she did not just claim it using her signature.

I’m with the finders keepers deal but she seen that he left tickets and he was still in her site she could have easily said sir you left your ticket,she had a chance to stop him and she didn’t,I’m not with that,finders keepers don’t apply in this situation,she didn’t try to stop him and return to him his tickets,if she had I believe when he won he would thought about the kind gesture that she did and gave her some of his winnings

She could send someone else to collect the money

@@garvindean6443 How can she trust anyone besides herself?

@@fieldburn Video surveliance buddy, every convience store has one on at all times.

yup

makes sense when you're able to return it. However I found $20 one late night working at the airport

Me too

i love happy endings...

She's evil cos he was goofy enough to leave the ticket behind?? Ok, then...

​@@bOmBAsTiKOh no! someone was goofy enough to leave their wallet behind, let me just take their money and use their credit card!!!!

@@chilly1661Not the same. Especially the ticket(s) sat there for a long time. I’m kind of torn.

@@DrivenA111 The video evidence will be used against the clerk how quickly she took the ticket. I am sure it was not a long time and she was aware of how the guy looked like. Keep in mind she also plead not guilty. Along with the other things going against her, like arguing with the person who drove her.

@@alanguages Yes, I’m not saying I wholeheartedly believe she’s innocent. Not sure how her arguing with that guy is relevant in any way.

Yes, always check it yourself. Then say "I'd like to cash these out". Most state lottos have an app that you can scan the ticket, and it tells you what it wins. That makes it very easy to know exactly what you should get.

This only applies to winnings under $600 mostly. I forget the number. If it is a large amount they will verify it. Buy them with a debit card that can be tracked to you.

Exactly 👍

Looking at the footage, it doesn't look like she even told him that he had a winning ticket....GUILTY RIGHT THERE🤷

@@chrisbasham2800 How was she going to tell him? The only options if he never comes back is the news or hoping the lotto themselves will look for him.

Depends on which state you live in. Many states require that the name be released. The one where I live does release the names.

Yep you're right, long lost relatives and friends will soon emerge to collect a portion of your proceeds, I would have remained anonymous and never tell anyone to include my family.

He will be lucky to get 500k after taxes and fees, in England the winner gets the full amount

Revealing identity is a consequence for winning. Don’t play if you don’t want to come forward. It’s very simple…

@@FiveDORRA its olnly nearly half, he will bring home around 1.5 Million...

That rhymes!

Well, I'm not so sure I would say she got nothing, as she's probably getting some time behind bars now!! 😂😂

If she did, the guy may have given her a nice tip.

@@DiaDeLaDead At least!

She would probably would have gotten some reward from him if she was straight forward honest with him, like other lottery winners did with their clerks.

The irony is without her doing that he literally would not have won anything. She is literally the only reason he got the money. Life is funny like that. I would give her $100 for real.

SMH it’s always the ones from Pakistan !

​@@Sebastianace-wg4sqBut the Clerk in this clip is an American, not a Pakistani.

@@riverjordan2725 nah she is a Mexican illegal

Facts , and it's not like she went into his pocket and stole it. Dude left it there and forgot about it. The lottery company had to track him down , so he wasn't even aware

Y’all really a bunch of scammers yourselves huh.

@@cyanidesidesalad How can you scam someone who forgot something? I worked at a gas station once and we had a drawer with 5 gas caps customers had left behind. Nobody ever asked for them the whole time I worked there.

I would.

there's a difference between temptation and taking. When you take it you're taking it from someone else, a stranger who hasn't wronged you in any way, and that should mean something to you if you like living in a remotely civil society (meaning that YOU won't get victimized most of the time).

What does that have to do with anything ? This video says nothing about anyone trying to cash a huge ticket at the store

What absolute hogwash, I guess babies that get cancer and die deserved it too. All the poverty in the world is ok because those people deserved it. You seem to be falling into the Just World Fallacy, the world has never been fair and often good people suffer more than bad people.

@AIuzky uh? u do know she could had find the person. and also if she truly didnt steal it? why on earth she tried to claim the ticket as if its hers?

If I were her lawyer, I would argue the ticket was abandoned property.

I still lie and cheat... You can get by most of the time

She never stole anything though. If she never looked for the winner though it was shady but never stealing.

That's what I was thinking actually, if she had the curiosity to find out the ticket was a winner, then she could've went to the store owner or lotto herself to turn it in and let them know when and where it was bought , guy seems to be a decent person . A reward isn't has far fetched as cashing it in herself

So basically LIE and say I found the ticket in the trash…. You haven’t learned that much in 34 years

Exactly . He would of compensated her nicely I bet for doing that .

and then the cab company owner stole it

@AIuzky Plot twist... if it was related to criminals and my father chose to keep the money, what says the criminals wouldn't trace the money, and put my father and his family in jeopardy? Think ahead about consequences of your actions.

@AIuzky You should use the mind to study a system of logic that reveals truth which is independent of body/ mind/ object reality. Everything else comes to go.

Your funny 😁 😂

U must be a youngster, u always plead not guilty at your initial hearing so your lawyer can fight the case or get you a plea bargain with the prosecutor, then you change your plea to guilty at a different hearing depending on the plea agreement

Once you knew the ticket was worth 3 million, you'd be legally required to turn it in to the police (unless you knew the guy and could return it directly). It's no different than finding a pile of cash. Before the drawing, I guess you could just throw them all away. The laws as written probably don't cover things with such a wide range of potential/indeterminate value. It is an interesting legal question. If I steal 500 lottery tickets and the police catch me before the drawing, can they only charge me with stealing $500, or if one of the tickets wins and is worth half a billion, can I be charged for that amount?

@@jmodified I agree, this wasn't 5$ just left on the floor, the store has video inside and out so finding that customer is a real possibility. And this isn't someone forgetting to grab a 5$ soda, this is a truly life changing amount of money. The clerk should have turned it in as abandoned and let the lottery commission and or police try to find the rightful owner. Otherwise to me it's fraud. Especially her trying to turn it in without stating (to the lottery people) the fact that it was an abandoned ticket and that she didn't pay for it. That's what she did wrong, she didn't pay for it, and was not above board in hopes that she could take the very large sum of money. Especially given her position where this type of fraud could be very easy to pull off.

What’s a titick

@@444onthefloor oh sorry I meant ticket

She didn't steal it , the dude left it. It's not her job to track him down and it's not her job to make sure he doesn't leave his belongings behinds.

@@cristianrojas995and it’s not the lottery’s job to give her the money. It is however their job to find out where exactly the ticket originated from and they found out she sold the ticket to the real buyer

⁠@@cristianrojas995it’s also not her job to cash in a lottery ticket she just sold.

crack

@@paullake1114by the way she looks and act, I’m not surprised if she is one

True, idk how much but hey here’s $5000 for doing the right thing

Just don't forget them at the counter.

but they give you the tickets

Look at her in court, she's not the brightest and use to begging and getting what she wants

That plan would only work if neither had drug problems though…

​@@AaronSmith-my2dhAbsolutely Right!!

Agree completely - it was pretty dumb of her to involve her coworker. I mean, paying someone $200000 for a ride??! And yeah, if she had just asked her boyfriend to claim it alone, they would be less likely to trace the ticket back to her.

​@@lavenderblues777Someone said something like,"I'm shocked she didn't get a LYFT to the Lottery Office for like $30! 🤣

You think a gas clerk has money to spend on a civil lawsuit that might not go her way? 😂

I am almost certain what she did that was wrong was lie to the lotto people and claimed she bought the ticket herself and signed it. If you told the lotto people you never bought it I think by default they look for the real owner.

"Not responsible for lost or stolen property" means the store is asserting that you can't sue them if you lose something there or someone steals it from you while you're in there. It doesn't mean they get to keep anything they find without qualification.

I am pretty sure the lotto people ask you if you bought it and make you sign a thing saying so. If you lie on that you can get in trouble.

@@logicaldebateUSA Then, that would totally negate the definition of a bearer instrument.

@@rolysantos Based on your reasoning why did they not let her keep it? She obviously did not steal it.

The story is a little more complicated; the next customer actually found the abandoned ticket on the counter and turned it over to the clerk. That customer is on the tape talking to the clerk about the ticket.

@@logicaldebateUSA That’s the big question. It shouldn’t be called a bearer instrument if it’s not actually.

Person either lost the ticket or maybe they sadly passed away before they could claim it. Car accidents happen all the time. So sad when it goes unclaimed.

But if it's a no win then that's okay. 😂

@@Mantras-and-Mystics of course, because if it's a no win no one cares; not even you.

I'd do it and I'd give him $20 for doing it

True

There will be instant fake friends out there who only want to take his money by budging off him. Doesn’t pay to advertise you have won the lottery.

Everyone is all of a sudden his cousin from his mom's step brother.

People gonna share their $10,000 problems with him now

I wanna be his friend now

After all the taxes, he's not a millionaire.

She never stole anything it was abandoned. It was shady to not look for him though.

@@logicaldebateUSA Nope that still counts as theft. For the whole finders keepers thing to work out you have to put in effort to return it to the rightful owner and ONLY THEN can you claim it for yourself if you fail to return it.

@@vilxxblack2472 It was literally never theft. The only thing she did that was wrong was lying to the lotto people and saying she bought it.

she is very sketchy I grew up with her sad really hanging around wrong crowds drugs n such

The man of her choice. Make good decisions ladies.

Stop defending her wtf

@@cyanidesidesalad Calm down wtf

@@bbygrlpt2well since she thought it was fine, then she should also be fine with the winnings going to the real buyer of the ticket. I mean she has no real stakes in the ticket so she should be totally okay with getting nothing

@@imanoldurango8213 Obviously even if she thinks it sucks what can she do?

@@bbygrlpt2 She can be honest when she tried to turn it in. If she had any sense she'd know she should be 100% honest if she has any chance of keeping any of it. It's 3 million dollars. They throw people in jail for YEARS for mishandling money on the order of thousands. That ticket, and then lying about where you got it is a ticket to jail. It's sad that she doesn't have the faculties to understand that (drugs, I'd bet).

She's probably messed up. Look at her in court, she's tweeking out like mad. Definitely on meth.

if you dont pay for the ticket it is not yours. that is Lottery rules they got curious of the ticket because of damage checked the time stamp of the ticket reviewed the camera of when it was bought showing someone else pay and forget it and her pocket it. So within Lottery guidelines she stole the ticket and tried to falsely claim it.

Yeah,there’s no way she could legally explain how she can claim the ticket without committing fraud.

That happens with a lot of legitimate lottery winners.

how the hell do you know that? do you know this girl personally? she's 23, she could make way better use of it than this man could. anyway, the mans generation literally ruined the economy for young people, hes had his good years, we dont get anything, id be glad to see her get that money.

Look at the guy from NC who won the billion dollar lottery, he went and bought stupidly 5 houses in california.. If hes planning on renting them out, kudos but with inflation and how the economy is. Really bad time to buy 5 houses....

Perfect since they both have a not guilty plea on the record.

Exactly.

The lottery said she not the buyer n not the original owner

She shouldn't argue about the money at the lottery greed got to them now this is cost

​@@michaellinseee626 She didn't she told her co-worker and boyfriend. Since her boyfriend and her both dont drive, they asked her co-worker to take her and offered him $200K, he came up to her while she was trying to claim it and wanted half the winnings. What a group of idiots.

Only the buyer is allowed to claim winnings, it doesn't matter if you sign it or not. They check thouroughly for the rightful winner.

3,000,000? It's going to be hard to try and not get that.

@@nigelcrabclaw5743 million is also the reason they probably looked so hard at this after the ticket was ineligible

A part of you is obviously a psycho.

Video surveliance... They verify the real legimate buyers for larger sums.. she did steal it.

I wouldn't do that !