A 52-year-old man who serviced Arizona Lottery machines for years is now facing three felony counts after investigators say he cornered a Phoenix gas station clerk and groped her while she was working alone, following her inside the store when she tried to get away. David William Reeves was arrested at his Peoria home on August 6 and remains held in a Maricopa County jail on a $25,000 bond.
According to FOX 10 Phoenix, the alleged assault happened on July 29 at a gas station near 43rd Avenue and Northern Avenue, where the victim was working alone. She had been photographing a damaged lottery machine to send to her manager when Reeves allegedly grabbed her left breast, according to court documents. When she yelled at him to stop and backed away, investigators say he followed her inside the store and tried to grab her breast a third time.
Reeves has worked as a territory manager servicing lottery machines since 2019, and the Arizona Lottery confirmed it is an employee, per the report gathered from Maricopa County Superior Court records. Reeves is not directly employed by the state lottery agency itself, however; the Arizona Lottery contracts its instant ticket warehousing, distribution, and retail field management staffing to Winnipeg-based Pollard Banknote Limited under an agreement running through August 2029. Pollard Banknote employs dedicated territory sales managers in the Phoenix area whose job is to visit retail locations, inspect equipment, and service lottery terminals — the exact kind of visit that put Reeves inside the gas station that day, according to a job listing reviewed by ZipRecruiter.
A Comment Prosecutors Say Reveals Intent
Store surveillance video captured the encounter and, according to police records, corroborated the clerk’s account of the assault. During a court hearing, prosecutor Brooke Gaunt argued that a comment Reeves allegedly made afterward undercuts any claim of accident: he allegedly told the victim, “You didn’t have a problem with it the first time.” Gaunt said that remark gives the inference that the contact was intentional, and she told the court authorities were concerned that Reeves posed a danger…