Store owner sounds alarm over lottery ticket thefts

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Store owner sounds alarm over lottery ticket thefts
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A San Antonio convenience store owner says his store and others are getting ripped off for their scratch-off lottery tickets.

Thieves took off with a case of lottery tickets from Anwar Tahir’s store on the West Side, the Leal Food Mart, last week. Security video shows a man distracting the employee at the register before tucking a plastic case of scratch-off tickets from the counter under his arm and running away with another man.

Tahir, a board member and past president of the San Antonio-based Association of Convenience Store Retailers, says these thefts are a common problem and provided KSAT with videos from other stores showing similar tactics, plus an apparent break-in. Tickets reported stolen can be deactivated, which keeps them from being “validated” or cashed in. Still, the thieves have a window of opportunity to look for winning tickets before that happens.

If the thieves successfully find winning tickets and cash them in, Tahir says the store owner can find themself on the hook for thousands of dollars worth of tickets, which can have a

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