Florida Winn-Dixie Liquors Store Clerk Nominated For The Village Idiot Award Example
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Clerk tells lottery winner his prize is only $5. She picked the wrong man to scam, cops say.
| Nominee: | Florida Winn-Dixie Liquors Store Clerk |
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| Trait | Shameless | ||||||||||
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| Description: | FORT MYERS, FL Do you trust your store clerk with your lottery ticket? Maybe you’ve won a few hundred bucks or more. Will the employee tell you — or pocket the ticket while telling you it’s a loser? That happened this week at a Fort Myers store, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. A Winn-Dixie Liquors employee is accused of keeping a customer’s $600 winning ticket —and paying him only 5 bucks. Crystelle Yvette Baton was charged with larceny grand theft on Monday. Baton, 42, was caught because she scammed the wrong customer, cops say. The man wasn’t a customer — he was an agent working undercover for the Florida Lottery Commission’s security division. When the undercover agent approached Baton with the winning ticket, she scanned it and realized it was worth $600. But instead of telling the man, investigators said she quietly pulled $5 out of her purse and told the man that was the “winning” ticket’s payoff. Shortly after, the ag |
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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article196582064.html |
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| Publication/Media Source: | Charlotte Observer | ||||||||||
| Author: | Howard Cohen | ||||||||||
| Photo and/or Video Source: | Lee County Sheriff’s Office | ||||||||||
| Publication Date: | January 25, 2018 10:50 AM Updated January 25, 2018 10:50 AM | ||||||||||
| Tags: | lottery, ticket, stolen, cashier, clerk, florida, fort myers, winning, undercover agent, florida lottery commission, crystelle baton, lee county, sheriff39s, 600, winning ticket | ||||||||||
| Nominator: | adminrw | ||||||||||
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| Submission Date | Jan 26, 2018 |
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