Man arrested for stealing scratch off tickets…tries to redeem winners at same store he stole them from
A Winter Haven man was arrested after authorities say he took a winning scratch-off ticket back to the store he had stolen it from a day earlier.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office reports that 22-year-old Alen Nguyen stole $70 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a Circle K store on Sunday.
1 of the tickets revealed a $50 prize.
When Nguyen went back to the store on Monday to claim the money, a clerk who was aware of the theft asked Nguyen for his driver’s license and wrote down the information.
The clerk called the authorities, and deputies went to arrest Nguyen.
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