Store clerk charged with cashing customer’s lottery ticket

CLAYTON, North Carolina – A 19-year-old convenience store clerk was arrested when Clayton police determined she cashed a customer’s winning lottery ticket and pocketed the money for herself.

Kathleen McClusky, of Clayton, was arrested and charged with felony of obtaining property by false pretense.

On Sunday around 4 p.m., 45-year-old Luis Flores-Bautista of Clayton called police to the Kangaroo Service Station at 10081 US Hwy. 70 Business West.

Flores-Bautista told police that he bought three lottery scratch-off tickets earlier in the day from the store. He said he scratched them off in the parking lot and two of the tickets were winning tickets — one for $17 and the other for $50.

Flores-Bautista said that when he went back in the store to redeem his winnings, the clerk gave him the $17, but told him the $50 ticket was not a winner and tossed it into the trash can. Full Article