y what's going on so today we got a video from a matter of crime and the title of the video is uh employee thinks she can go home after stealing 11,000 in lottery tickets so let's get into the video man let's see what they talking about so I just can't just go home why more like you just stole a candy bar okay I guess there's a question about almost $1,000 worth ofter but you don't have on video that million videos we've all tried our luck with the lottery buy a ticket scratch and hope for a miracle but what if that Miracle never stood a chance because the cashier had already pocketed the winners meet a Win Dixie cashier a single mom who didn't just dream of winning the lottery she rigged it she stole over $11,000 in scratch offs and found a way to turn losing tickets into winners hoping it would balance the register and keep everything under the radar but the scheme fell apart when the Florida Lottery noticed they'd overpaid thousands of dollars to Winners an investigation caught her on camera scanning only the winning tickets while leaving everyone else empty-handed here's what happened next [Music] a what's going on all right so what's happening is we have an associate um okay we started seeing some Lottery shortages over here for instant ticket and online um it started back around the beginning of July um and it's gone on to present so since ju individuals been selecting Lottery card lottery cards playing online tickets yes okay you want go back in for real quick okay he said's going on I try I don't know what's going on so I can that's the I don't want my keys to be stuck out the door and I know well we don't I don't know what's going on yet so let me talk to him and we'll go from there um so have on video you know selecting chickets mainly at the liquor store she would just scratch the bottom to see if they're win or not discard them if they weren't catch them if they were and did y'all notice that did y'all notice this right here the door how the door was closed she came out he said go back in there but she didn't close the door all the way she left it crack so that way she could hear what he's saying she thinks she slick she ain't slick man process on the cash register tow um like somebody brings up a winning ticket we can key in instant Lottery Redemption and then put in the dollar amount then we pay that out well she figured out that she could do that even without a winning ticket and everything's still balanced on the back end in our world but then when we got the bill from Lottery then obviously we were like okay well we paid out more redemptions than what we received and so that's when all this started unfolding um so we're looking at um total that I can prove that she took 8 was 10,653 something like that during that time every in on video every in on video I got it all in a thumb drive for you everything on video I've got the r r report that shows r redemptions on our register and then the all of the redemptions on the Florida Lottery terminal since we don't own that I had to get that to the state and that shows everything of what ticket she scan what the value is on an Excel spreadsheet so log in for her information doesn't matter the machine is a machine anybody The Machine's a machine anybody can do it but it's her scheduled shift uh and obviously on video she's the only one at the liquor store cuz we usually only work one person in lior store so basically she's been taking ticket scan Bott them if they're winners or not they're not winners they don't way if they are winners she scans them takes money and she found a way to get to make a lottery ticket of workn every time and it's been going on since July they have a drive full of all the it's started July 2nd I think was the first day that we discovered um so do you have like date and times written out you have anything written out yet or no everything's on that Thum drive as far as Expos spreadsheets so she's basically taking lottery tickets scanning them but they have to be activated first they're all active because they're all you know for gam playay you said for I will tell you we're trying to figure that out I'm trying to figure out what I have okay I'm going to figure out if we're taking a jail or not taking a jail well I need to know cuz I will let you know once I know I will let you know okay so can you sit down for me I have seven and a child that's scho right now having asthma fure take for me we'll figure it [Music] out so I just can't just go home the kid all of a sudden in school having an asthma attack come on man yo they say anything boy because the allegations I guess we have going on against going to investig okay well now that they did their investigation now they can tell us what they have going on say he had to talk to somebody else that finish going On's going well they're providing us a verbal statement what's been going on since July okay so we it's not more like you just stole a candy bar okay I guess there's a question about almost $111,000 worth of Lottery get over [Music] so yes we're GNA is that something you wrote down you want you want that back or a Redemption as a as a hand key and then they put $30 we give you 30 bucks right well everything balances in our world until the state which we only get quarterly the state send us a bill that says hey you've actually overpaid some we overpaid we overpaid the redemptions because she figured out that she could just do that instant Lottery Redemption for no ticket and get and take whatever money she wanted out of fake correct or no loser loser having a ticket not even having a ticket she just goes up and goes in Lottery redemptions $100 $100 $100 tiet correct you can just computerize correct correct is that normal practice in my 15 years here I've never had somebody figure that part out that they could just do it without so obviously something on our back end that might need to be addressed yeah they gave you that opportunity okay and then she played some online stuff too I mean the online's probably a couple hundred bucks but the rest is adds up to the you know 10,600 something okay the print out of I didn't print it out cuz it was just so big I mean these reports are M USB that you have what what is on it I've got all the video um I've offered doing all this stuff I have all the receipts video security yeah security video time stamp and D yeah time stamp dated um I have one file that has all the video one file that has you okay SC the hell out of me been huh I just been out here I just saw that she got up over there and you moveed back so you jump cuz she told me to make a phone call so I'm trying to think of who can I call to get my kids off her children are about to get out of school so she was I do need the that's what I'm trying to figure out cuz people in my neighborhood make sure they got some so I'm trying to think who went around my house I would try to figure it out that's what I'm trying so while we're doing figuring out stuff right here so you figure out what's going so you ask him get the statement that they were just talking to me about this two months ago I will gladly ask him don't worry about that but I'm telling you right now I'm going to be talking with them we're going to figure out what we have going on you Haven until by the time we come in here and talk to you about what's going on you figure out a ride for your family for your kids and jail there's a possibility why because apparently you stole almost $111,000 and my the Cory and Charles that run this store they had a conversation with and they wrote me up but let me like I said let me figure out what they have over here just get somebody see if they can pick your kids up just in case if you do happen to go to J oh she dumb she thinks she getting written up for $11,000 you're going to jail she thought she was going to get a write up for $111,000 yeah okay play with the lottery if you want to okay you think it's a game okay okay you just going to get a right up man when the lottery builds the company you think the company going to eat that nah nah nah nah n nah n n nah nah you yeah if the company got to eat that you yeah you definitely uh you definitely getting charged believe you me and you probably going to have to pay restitution and everything like that so that's the thing I'm trying to think who can I call my family don't stay here they say is Georgia okay well you need to figure out a family friend or somebody or I can call my friends this child prot services so can I call y'all um one of the police officers that used to work with you guys can I get my laptop used to or does tell you about the meeting we had hang on see now he don't want to say nothing cuz he's talking with us I told you you just can't interrupt we're talking now so figure out what you're doing figure out somebody with your kids okay can she walk me in the bathroom no I'm beding like no she's walking with me no you're not going anywhere I can't even go pee no you cannot go pee how do I supposed to use the bathroom it's either you make phone calls now for somebody to get your kids okay I'm helping you that or I put you in handcuffs and we just go no we're not doing that can we have to listen to It's M you're in my custody right now you're not free to go you're under investigative detention right now okay you know what that me want to okay this the actual toal see we can [Music] put let me ask a question if a police stand in front of me they could they could deny me for using the [Music] restro oh yeah you think it's a oh yeah oh yeah she think it's a joke she think it's a joke that right there would have just pissed me off right then and there you not you I feel like you don't have the best interest of your kids in that moment you worried about using the bathroom so if I if I decide to just lock you up right now and just throw you in the back of the car until we figure out what we going to do oh now now you know the cop is the bad guy giving you the opportunity make the necessarily phone calls that you need to to make so that way you can you know what I'm saying your kids will be taken care of whatever but no instead of doing that you want to call your people to if see if the cop is doing his job correctly or not that would have just pissed me off and I would have put you in handcuffs and put you in the back of the seat until we finish this investigation we're in front of you making accusations of you stealing $111,000 from when Dixie okay because wa when I started back over here he saying that um $111,000 worth of Lotto I took so the police stand here I have to pee like I'm bleeding like he telling me no I cannot go I just asked him he said no she can't even go with me he said I have to stand here cool yes clearly she don't care about getting her kids off the bus I lock her up Lo CPS should be to go it has to be law enforcement y can't stand at the door a no in the bathroom do you have a I need a few more bath oh my gosh no the thing is I'm having a female officer come here it's going to search you prior to going to the bathroom oh she can search me you want to take it no I was opening my clothes this what's in my pocket you're fine the only thing in here is milk and it's leaking that's it no you are fine okay he saying no I said can't go your auntie ain't going to save you but why don't you ask her see if she will um go pick up your little ones just in case you do have to come with me I cannot hear you okay yo what's up with these cops bro I don't know I feel like I feel like off I don't know what's going on but people getting soft man they getting soft man they getting soft man this shouldn't be going on the only thing I want to hear is hey are you available such and such time I got you know Johnny and Suzanne getting off the bus could are you able to slide over there pick them up I might be going to jail you know what I'm saying but you talking about some whole other stuff you clearly don't care about your kids your kids is going to go to CPS and I'm locking you up you're done done she said the same thing you said what I'm sorry when the police say something to me I call somebody e to work for the police department she said long as a female officer I can go other than that if it's a male I cannot go I have to sit here and hold my y so Mr art so they didn't tell you about the write up they gave me for that she ain't making no other they tell you about the write up that the whole conversation we had in here cuz I had it with Charles in that's fun I mean but but this is about the same thing you just talking about correct cuz at that point we didn't we didn't know where the loss was coming from he said the he said he said the lotto the lotto is messing up so you whatever you're doing you need to stop he said cuz it's a a lot of money for that then after then it was another one for the upstairs time foration I know and yeah so apparently apparently 3 days ago police got contacted by Windixie about it they' compiled all the paperwork and all like the files and everything for WinDixie so there's a PDF up here with like tons of information on it about video surveillance I guess each actual um scratch off ticket dates times money value I mean we're like 11 Grand over 5 months man I mean that that's yeah that's that's that's that's corus problem well it's theft it's Grand Theft yeah War Dixie has their own corporate that investigate [ __ ] like this and they you wait five months to well they just knew about it 3 weeks ago because they got alerted by the state regarding I guess basically they sent a summary or whatever and I guess they said like oh you're you're over this amount because basically each ticket has a value so she would go in just go to the computer and just take money out without scanning a ticket so that think the hit and then I guess that when they found out about it they started investigating it contact the lottery police Lottery police sent them all the information um I guess he just got the rest of the information I don't know yesterday today or two days ago and then I guess uh she's here so nobody's talked to her yet um I guess Lottery police said that they have too high of a workload that they're not going to come take this and that it's just simple grand theft and if you need him to come to the station to uh go this way to explain the paperwork and how to read it and all this other kinds of stuff they they've been helpful already so he'd be more than happy to come to you I appreciate it like I don't understand why they just don't do it but whatever right so I just need you to fill out a statement form basically just put your information here okay down here put her information okay and then let's just make this the easy way so on the statement form just write um on this date of this time I was informed of XYZ um you begin an investigation which you ultimately determine that from this month this day to this month this day employee X was doing XYZ um you contact the lottery police uh they went ahead and sent you over all the files as far as video dates times I'm assuming the the transactions yeah like all the video and all the register transaction was from us and then I had to go through the state to get the for the the lot their Lottery terminal reports and that's what I contact the scans of the actual the scans right and then just say you got all that information um just say that um it has been determined that the total amount of of of theft from um you know business whatever is x amount of dollars um and then just put in there that you wish to pursue charges okay all right okay cool I mean that's I mean we don't have to go too deep into yours right I mean I mean everything's on the thumb drive so I know it's going to take some time to do day by day and each time and that's a lot that's I was going to say it's probably going to be she actually she says her if she doesn't that then we'll have release her while we continue to work the investigation because it sounds like it's kind of in depth for months right so um and once we arrest her the state has 33 33 days to file on those charges so if we can't really make sense of it for them then they're going to drop it so obviously the only thing I'm worried about is ution so obviously have to go through the prostiution part to get that so is it is it Windex that's at a loss or is it for lottery I'm going a loss for the value of theet okay now the cases that I've worked for in the past is we'll prosecute for the value of the tickets cuz that's my loss and then the state goes after that person for the winnings of those fraud tickets okay so that's what usually happens that's even more in depth for flottery yeah what's the total value for the almost for my L is 10,000 yeah 10 10653 for the uh just a for tickets yes okay yeah yeah then the value for the St be triple that probably yeah depending on what you want yeah so like I said just on that just kind of like just this day you found out about this you begin an investigation and you know just kind of the format of it so cuz I I'll poor likely I'll I'll be doing the initial just a brief just we got here reference to this is what he said it was handed over to them to okay spend the more manpower time to sit sit there and go through everything so happen is going take the initial report it'll come up to us and we to everything that you provide to them and kind of make sense of it for the state and then file the charges okay as long as I've been through the courts I mean that's my only hope of restitution so who do you want to do Miranda an interview you have more I don't really have a lot of knowledge but I'll give a shot [Applause] chair doesn't break I just want what was your what was your I know your your last name is bird what was your first name again ma'am you can read myand right I didn't say that but in order for me to speak to you okay because you are detained okay because we are doing an investigation in order for me to legally speak to you I have to reach you your Miranda Waring somebody said you're going to jail okay but I have to read these to you okay so what was your first name states that the constitution requires I inform you that you have the right to remain silent anything you say will be used in court as evidence against you you are entitled to talk to an attorney now or have him or her present hour any time during questioning if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for you without cost if you desire to consult with an attorney first or have during the interview just speak up at any time if at anytime here after you wish to remain silent or have an attorney presence all questions will be stopped do you understand your rights you you willing to speak to me go ahead okay is that a yes is that a yes no okay in her redacted confession the suspect admitted to taking lottery tickets to cover basic necessities like milk and other items for her newborn she also revealed that this wasn't a one-time thing it had been going on for about 2 months her method was straightforward keep the winning tickets cash them in and throw away the losers it seemed foolproof but eventually her luck ran out okay but just there are resources out there okay and if you need help you need to contact us Salvation Army uh Rescue aach Mission there's a whole different slew of things out there okay we have a pamphlet at our Police Department which is my address so I know where you live to make sure all your information is right okay there are pamphlets we have that have aund different types of resources out there okay okay what to do my address so I know where you live why you got know what I live for a report my address have to be on a report everything will be on a report this is what's happening okay you're going to take a ride to jail okay so sit down come on who do you need to call I don't have nobody to go get my kids so come on he catch hang tight we have some some things that need to be handled over here so have a seat okay what will be the charge grand theft and scheme to Def frud as of now one count of grand theft and scheme to Def frud what is that but there's going to be more counts of Grand Theft coming down the road once they can go through everything and and atomize every individual transaction every transaction is a theft so I'm going to have a felony charge yes two felonies but it's one count now but it's going to add up okay so I won't even get no BN okay I believe there is don't quote me on it though all right so have a seat hey just just bring that later I don't even need it come on can you do out the door I got to do it here I don't need to St my arm okay well I'm trying to put your arms on you like you're pray like this like you're pray stop pulling from me please put your hand behind your back can't follow simple instructions bro stop pulling do you understand that me down the stairs I don't walk down the stairs it doesn't matter you're pulling from me you don't do anything that I don't tell you to do do you understand that my hand on your cou do that car I'm not happy just just leave the suspect was ultimately charged with felony grand theft and sentenced to 2 years of probation however after violating her probation she ended up serving 8 months behind bars the real question is with all those tickets she scratched did she ever think the when I get in the mood no time for the face when you see me I see you no FaceTime shoot my shot green 2 [ __ ] get a [ __ ]