A $12.8 million Arizona Lottery jackpot is now tied up in court after Circle K alleged that a store manager bought the winning ticket only after the numbers had already been announced, according to a video report by Arizona’s Family reporter David Caltabiano.
Caltabiano reported that a judge is expected to decide who gets the massive prize, which came from a lottery ticket sold at a Circle K in Scottsdale. The case centers on a strange and unusually high-stakes question: who owns a winning lottery ticket that was printed for one customer, left behind, and allegedly purchased later by the store’s own manager?
“This is quite the story,” Caltabiano said at the start of the report, noting that the allegation is that the lottery winner bought the ticket after the winning numbers had already been announced…