Guang'an Observation Peng Juan Chuanguan News Reporter Deng Hanyu
"I've been selling lottery tickets for more than ten years, and I've never met a thief who came to steal lottery tickets." On January 11, Ms. Lu, who runs a lottery shop in Longnu Street, Wusheng County, Guang'an City, recalled that she was angry and funny when she recalled that she had stolen the "Scratch Music" lottery ticket with a total face value of more than 13,000 yuan.
I've heard of thieves stealing money and stealing mobile phones, but what is the strange thing about stealing lottery tickets?
The "Scratch Music" lottery ticket worth more than 13,000 yuan was stolen, and more than 8,000 yuan was scraped out
It happened on November 16, 2021. At about 7 o'clock in the morning, Ms. Lu went to the store as usual to prepare for the opening, but found that the door lock was pried, she was shocked, immediately entered the store to check, found that several drawers were turned over in a mess, more than 60 yuan in cash, and several stacks of "scratch music" lottery tickets with a total face value of more than 13,000 yuan were missing, and the single face value of the lottery ticket was 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, and 30 yuan. Therefore, Ms. Lu immediately called the police.
At the same time as the police carried out the investigation, Ms. Lu also in the WeChat group of a number of lottery shop owners, so that everyone paid attention to the large number of people who exchanged "scratch" lottery tickets and informed them in time. In addition, because each lottery ticket has a specific code, the lock can be activated through the system, but in order to further lock the location of the suspect, Ms. Lu only locked a part of it for the time being.
At about one or two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the system showed that some of the stolen lottery tickets were collected at a lottery store in Linshui County, Guang'an, and a total of 600 yuan was redeemed. After discovery, Ms. Lu immediately locked all the codes of the stolen lottery tickets and notified the police handling the case.
Through the investigation, it was found that the 4 suspects who committed the crime were chongqing longevity people. Because the lottery cannot be claimed across provinces, they decided to collect the prize in Linshui County on their return trip. Chen Lin, a police officer at the Yankou Police Station of the Wusheng County Public Security Bureau, introduced that after the suspect successfully claimed the prize in Linshui County, he took the rest of the winning "scratch music" lottery tickets and went to other lottery shops, and after finding that he could not claim the prize, he fled back to Chongqing.
In the end, the police handling the case in Wusheng, with the help of the police in Fuling and Changshou in Chongqing, successively arrested the relevant suspects.
Ms. Lu told Chuanguan News that when the stolen lottery ticket of more than 13,000 yuan was recovered, the coating had all been scratched off, and the total amount of the prize was about 8,000 yuan. After that, she also claimed these unclaimed winning "scratch" lotteries to reduce losses.
Overnight, more than a dozen shops were damaged, and the Sichuan-Chongqing police jointly solved the case
"On the morning of the same day (November 16, 2021), more than a dozen alarm calls were received one after another, all of which were pried in stores and stolen property." Chen Lin said that in addition to the lottery station, there are clothing stores, stationery stores, dental clinics, etc. The suspects entered the store after prying the door and stole cash, mobile phones, tablet computers, gold and silver jewelry, etc., and the amount involved reached more than 40,000 yuan.
Through surveillance, the police found that the suspects in more than a dozen cases were actually the same group of people - 4 teenagers. They are all long-lived people in Chongqing, aged thirteen or fourteen, and both dropped out of school. According to the police, the four people have multiple theft records in the local area. This time, they chose the nearest Wusheng as the target of the crime.
Before the incident, several people chartered a car from Chongqing to Wusheng County, and when they stepped on the spot, two of them were "scratch music" enthusiasts, and after seeing the lottery station, they had the idea of stealing lottery tickets. They operated late at night, stealing lottery ticket stations and other shops before taking a chartered bus back to Chongqing.
In the end, with the cooperation of the police in Sichuan and Chongqing, several suspects were arrested and returned to the relevant victims.
The police called on parents to be vigilant and prevent juvenile delinquency, and at the same time, the society should increase the correct guidance of juveniles. At the same time, the police also reminded the masses that the probability of winning the lottery is small, and it is necessary to treat it rationally, and must not try to "get rich overnight" through winning the lottery, let alone take the risk of taking the road of crime.