A criminal with more than 20 years of wrongdoings is now looking at possibly more than two decades in prison sentence
One Florida man had the perfect crime planned. Rob a local lottery shop, scoop up hundreds of tickets, and try to cash in any winners – at the exact location. Justin Farley, 43, was arrested by the St. Petersburg Police Department over his alleged robbing of a Circle K shop in the city.
Returning to the Scene of the Crime – To Cash In
Supposedly, Farley pulled off his heist on May 5, leaving the venue with $7,000 worth of scratch-off tickets. He could have gotten away with it, as nobody could identify the robber, until he came back to the shop to claim the winning tickets.
The irony, however, is that the tickets had been flagged as stolen due to their barcodes, which were identified by the property as stolen. When he walked in, nobody suspected he was indeed the robber, but after the cashiers scanned the tickets, they figured it out at once.
When he failed to get anything out of the Circle K shop, Farley fled the premises and entered a nearby 7-Eleven store. He took out a gun, asked for cash and cigarettes, and stole $120, as well as some cigs, and locked the cashier in a storage room before leaving there as well…