PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – A Panama City store clerk was arrested Thursday after law authorities say he sold a special compliance-test lottery ticket for $800.
An undercover Florida Lottery officer gave clerk Rohail Khan a ticket designed to look like a $1,000 winner; the display showed it was a “$600-or-more winner” that had to be claimed in Tallahassee. The arrest report says Khan ignored those instructions, told the officer the terminal showed nothing and gave the officer a free ticket.
On May 26, someone tried to claim the prize at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee and said Khan sold him the ticket for $800. Khan later admitted keeping the ticket and selling it, according to the report. He’s charged with dealing in stolen property and unlawfully selling the right to claim a lottery prize.
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