A South Shore man forgot a $3M lottery ticket, and the clerk claimed the prize. Now she and a coworker are dealing with costs.

Crime

The lottery winner walked out with barbecue potato chips, however unknowingly left his profitable ticket behind.

A Randolph man pleaded not responsible Monday as prosecutors accused him of attempting to extort a coworker out of a part of a $3 million prize from a stolen lottery ticket.

Joseph Reddem, 32, is dealing with one cost of tried extortion. He was launched on private recognizance and ordered to not gamble or have contact with witnesses and his coworker, Carly Nunes, who was additionally indicted within the scheme, the Plymouth County District Legal professional’s Workplace stated in a press release. 

Reddem’s legal professional couldn’t instantly be reached for remark Tuesday morning. 

Prosecutors say Nunes, 23, was working as a checkout clerk at a Lakeville liquor retailer when a person got here in on Jan. 17 to purchase potato chips and lottery tickets. The person took the chips however forgot his lottery tickets, and the DA’s workplace stated one other buyer later discovered the tickets and handed them to Nunes.

After a short seek for his lacking tickets, the person assumed they had been misplaced, prosecutors stated. His Mass Hundreds of thousands numbers had been known as that night, incomes him a $3 million prize.

Two days later, Reddem allegedly drove Nunes and her boyfriend to the Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters to redeem the ticket, which appeared torn and burned. Surveillance video captured Nunes and Reddem arguing within the foyer, with Reddem allegedly demanding a part of the jackpot and Nunes informing him she would “solely pay him $200,000,” the DA’s workplace stated. 

After overhearing the argument and paying attention to the ticket’s situation, state lottery officers determined to analyze.

Nunes allegedly informed officers she purchased the tickets towards the tip of her shift, tore the profitable ticket whereas eradicating it from her pockets, and burned it by by accident inserting it on a pipe. Nevertheless, the DA’s workplace stated she later admitted she obtained the ticket inadvertently. 

Investigators tracked down the ticket’s true proprietor practically a month later.

Nunes was indicted final month on costs of larceny from a constructing, tried larceny, presentation of a false declare, and witness intimidation. She is slated for arraignment in Plymouth County Superior Court docket Wednesday, and it was not instantly clear whether or not she had retained an legal professional. 

Reddem is due again in courtroom on July 28.