Police say he threw the ticket in the trash after telling the customer it was not a winner, only to go back and fish it out of the garbage later on.
According to a police news release, the real winner bought two winning Diamond and Gold scratch-off tickets worth $20 each at a Murfreesboro, Tenn., gas station. To save time, instead of scratching off the game on the tickets, heOne of the tickets had a winning prize of $40, which Patel handed over to the winner, police say. But the other ticket, with a whopping $1-million winning prize, he dropped into the garbage can and told the customer it wasn’t a winner.
“Mr. Patel is then seen later in the video celebrating in the store after scratching off the front of the ticket and learning it was a $1 million winner,” Det. Dennis Ward said in the news release. The Tennessee Lottery requires any winner of a prize of $200,000 or more to claim their winnings at its Nashville headquarters.New and used vehicle supply is surging. Here’s how prices are reacting“He went to the Tennessee Lottery Commission to claim the ticket as his own and through their normal line of questioning there werefor them to say, ‘Hey, you need to get all of your affairs in order and come back to us and we’re gonna hold on to the ticket,’” Lt. Det.
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