Winn-Dixie store clerk arrested for giving 'customer' $5 instead of $600 for winning lottery ticket

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Authorities arrested a Winn-Dixie clerk for trying to steal a winning Florida Lottery ticket from a "customer." Police say a man gave a ticket to 42-year-old Crystelle Baton on Monday to scan. When Baton scanned the ticket at a Winn-Dixie Liquors store in Fort Myers, officials say she learned the ticket was worth $600. Investigators say Baton did not give the man the correct winnings, but instead pulled five dollars from her purse and told him that was what the ticket had won. The Florida Lottery Commission says Baton was not attempting to scam a regular customer but an undercover agent from its security division conducting a random visit.

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