{"id":27871,"date":"2022-12-13T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27871"},"modified":"2022-12-13T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:31:58","slug":"polk-county-gas-station-employee-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1k-worth-of-scratch-off-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/13\/polk-county-gas-station-employee-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1k-worth-of-scratch-off-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County gas station employee accused of stealing nearly $1k worth of scratch-off tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A gas station employee was arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $1,000 worth of lottery tickets from a RaceTrac store in Davenport.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"248\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27872\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruddy Montan Ventura, 22, was reportedly seen on store cameras pocketing scratch-off tickets from the RaceTrac on 43250 U.S. Highway 27, multiple times between Nov. 1 and Nov. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total loss was valued at $940. The report did not mention whether Ventura won any money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When his manager confronted him and showed him the surveillance video, Ventura allegedly confessed to the crime and handed her a written note in which he admitted to the theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies responded to the business and took Ventura into custody. He was arrested and charged with grand theft, then booked into the Polk County Jail before being released on a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gas station employee was arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $1,000 worth of lottery tickets from a RaceTrac store in Davenport. Ruddy Montan Ventura, 22, was reportedly seen on store&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[4043],"class_list":["post-27871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-polk-county-gas-station-employee-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1k-worth-of-scratch-off-tickets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}