ircle K is asking a judge in Arizona to sort out an issue over a winning lottery ticket. Back in November, a person walked into the Circle K in Scottsdale and asked for a bunch of state The Pick lottery tickets. The clerk printed 85 tickets but the customer paid for only 60. The remaining 25 tickets, according to the store’s suit, “were set aside but were not sold to another customer.” That night, one of those unsold tickets matched all six numbers, hitting the jackpot worth $12.8-million. The next morning, the suit claims, store manager Robert Gawlitza realized his store had sold the winning ticket, found the winner among the unsold tickets, clocked out, removed his uniform, and had another employee “sell” him the ticket for $10. He was given a receipt and then signed the back of the ticket. Here’s the issue the judge will have: while state code says the store owns unsold tickets and workers on the clock can’t buy tickets, the manager clocked out to buy it.
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