WOLCOTT, Ct. — Police in a small Connecticut town said a former gas station worker in stole more than $25,000 in scratch-off lottery ticket revenue from the business.
Juliana Perillo, 55,was charged with first-degree larceny Monday in connection to lottery revenue that went missing from Petro Pat's in Wolcott. She was released on a promise to appear and is next scheduled to appear in court on July 2.
Police said Perillo faked numbers on a store log sheet to make it seem like customers had returned their lottery tickets for a refund. She then used the money from the nonexistent refunds to buy more tickets.
According to the police, Perillo stole more than $4,400 worth of tickets in one month alone. Authorities said that her scheme lasted 10 months.
Perillo has been fired and denies the thefts, saying that due to medical issues, she may have hit the wrong buttons on the register. (LOL)
Hitting the “ Wrong button defense” just might work. Decades ago a character out in SF blamed the consumption of too many Twinkie’s in he’s defense for killing the Mayor of San Francisco.
Juliana has a chance, it is a slim one, but a chance nonetheless.
I hope that Julian Perillo was attempting to ruin her life because she did that.
Hum, well maybe Juliana will finally become lucky by her judge becoming trained to think that a "log sheet" somehow contains buttons.
I hope she gets away scott free.......I mean just think of her little granchildren that won't get to see there poor granmammy. I feel sorry for her what has the world come to
Her little "granchildren" will still be able to see her on Saturdays or Sundays between the hours of 1 to 5pm.
Umm, you can return lottery for a refund?!?
Sure I've seen where a seller might print up a wrong ticket, then they tape it to the counter for someone to buy (and a few big winners this way), but rarely. And those tickets weren't sold in the first place.
As for scratchers, if they tear off the wrong ticket behind the counter, I see it and stop them before they ring it up. Sometimes I just bought it anyway, who knows if it's a winner.
I was thinking about the good ole days when you could get away with Grand Larceny , now.....
I've got to give her a little credit on her scheme, though simple it worked for a short while. Too many checks and balances to pull off something so blatant against your lottery or employer.
The other half of me kind of feels sorry for her. One never knows what dire straits someone may be going through and she might have done this out of desperation. Just hope she shows up for 2 JUL 18 court appearance.
If anyone knows anything about accounting, the pluses and minuses have to always equal zero.
By her taking tickets and not paying for them would certainly throw off the tally sheet.
Most stores having more than one shift would mean that other people would need to count the tickets at the end of their shift. Her stealing tickets would be found sooner or later.
The numbers never lie, only dishonest people do!
You mean out of $25,000.00 worth of tickets, she didn't find any million dollar winners???
That is NOT good!
Shady scammer. The entire State is bent..lol