Convenience store employee arrested after cashing more than $120,000 in stolen lottery tickets

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
A Fresno convenience store employee was arrested Monday after allegedly stealing lottery tickets from his place of work, police say.

According to investigators, Mantej Singh, 37, stole $129,100 in scratcher lottery tickets from Fast & Easy 7 convenience store near E. Shields and N. Armstrong.
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Over the course of three months, police say Singh stole several packs of scratchers valued at $600 to $900 after the Lottery machine had closed for the day.

He would then redeem the winners at his place of employment as well as other locations in Fresno.
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Singh has since been booked into the Fresno County Jail and charged with Embezzlement and Grand Theft.
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