HEMPSTEAD, NY – Let’s say you walk into a convenience store, you buy a lottery ticket and win $1,000! You’d think it’s your lucky day, right?
Okay, now what if that winning lottery ticket was actually worth 10-times the amount you were given, and the clerks who cashed your ticket scammed you out of the real value? Not so lucky anymore.
That’s what two store clerks in New York are accused of doing to a customer at their Peninsula Deli and Grocery store.
Passing down bad judgement from one generation to the next, cops say 26-year-old Karmim Jaghab and his 57-year-old dad, Nabil, paid their customer just a thousand smackeroos and sent him on his way. They forgot to mention, however, that the customer had actually won the million dollar prize!
The slighted winner must’ve had one of those Oprah realizations, because he called the cops a few days later. The two clerks are now behind bars (at the jail, not their store) and they’re both facing grand larceny charges.
Cops say the duo was going cash in the scratch-off and take the money for themselves. Their lawyer insists that’s not the case saying the store’s lottery machine wasn’t working properly.
Criminals really do hide in plain sight, guess running into them is just the luck of the draw!
