• Prosecutors say a retailer clerk tried to steal a successful $3 million Mega Tens of millions lottery ticket.
• A buyer purchased two lottery tickets and a big bag of chips after which forgot the tickets.
• Prosecutors say Nunes took the tickets and tried to redeem them on the state lottery headquarters.

A grand jury has indicted a liquor retailer clerk in Massachusetts after she tried to steal a $3 million successful lottery ticket from a buyer, prosecutors say.

Timothy Cruz, the Plymouth County district lawyer, stated in a information launch that Carly Nunes, 23, was discovered responsible on Friday of larceny, tried larceny, presentation of a false declare, and witness intimidation.

Surveillance video taken on Jan. 17 confirmed an unidentified buyer strolling into the liquor retailer the place Nunes labored in Lakeville, Massachusetts. He purchased two Mega Tens of millions lottery tickets, one Mass Money lottery ticket, and a big bag of barbeque potato chips, Cruz stated.

—DA Tim Cruz (@PlymouthCtyDAO) May 12, 2023

Nunes printed the person’s lottery tickets on the shop’s ticket machine and rang up the person’s order, which totaled $12, Cruz stated. About 45 minutes after the person left the shop, one other buyer got here in to additionally purchase lottery tickets. That buyer observed that the earlier buyer had left the tickets within the machine. He gave them to Nunes, the discharge says.

Lottery officers turned suspicious when Nunes confirmed as much as the state lottery headquarters on Jan. 19 to say the $3 million prize along with her boyfriend and her co-worker, Joseph Reddem, Cruz stated.

The successful ticket that Nunes offered was “torn and gave the impression to be burned,” the discharge says. Safety digicam footage on the lottery headquarters captured Nunes and Reddem arguing concerning the cash. At one level, Nunes tells Reddem she would “solely pay him $200,000.”

“Nunes said that she mistakenly tore the ticket when eradicating it from her pockets and the burn marks have been the results of her unintentionally putting the ticket on a pipe,” Cruz stated within the launch.

Cruz stated lottery officers overheard the argument and instructed Nunes they have been opening an investigation into the successful ticket and that she would obtain the cash on the conclusion of the investigation. Lottery officers then contacted Massachusetts State Police.

After discovering that another person had initially bought the ticket, the police discovered the true lottery winner by putting flyers across the metropolis with surveillance pictures of him buying the ticket, in line with the discharge. 

Police additionally charged Reddem with tried extortion associated to the case.