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Man Charged with Breaking Into Grocery Store and Stealing Lottery Tickets |
 Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives and Cayce Department of Public Safety officers on Tuesday, October 20 charged a 37-year-old Gaston man with breaking into a grocery store on U.S. 321 in Gaston and stealing a ticket dispenser that contained instant scratch- off tickets for the South Carolina Education Lottery. The man later cashed some of the instant scratch-off tickets at a convenience store on Charleston Highway in Cayce.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said sheriff’s detectives charged Kenny Lee James, 37, of 148 Robinson Court, Gaston, with second-degree burglary and defrauding the South Carolina Education Lottery Commission. James was being held on Tuesday at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting a bond hearing.
Sheriff’s detectives obtained arrest warrants for James on the burglary and fraud charges after Cayce Department of Public Safety officers arrested James on Tuesday morning on related charges, Metts said.
Arrest warrants that sheriff’s detectives obtained for James allege that at about 5 a.m. on Saturday, October 17 James broke a glass pane in the front door of a Food Lion grocery store at 5204 Highway 321 in Gaston in order gain entry into the business, Metts said. After breaking into the store, James stole a South Carolina Education Lottery Commission ticket dispenser that contained an undetermined number of instant scratch-off lottery tickets.
After stealing lottery tickets from the Food Lion grocery store in Gaston, James went to a Corner Pantry convenience store at 2931 Charleston Highway in Cayce and cashed some of the instant scratch-off lottery tickets that he had stolen, Metts said.
Questions concerning the circumstances of James’ arrest as well as charges that were filed in connection with the cashing of stolen lottery tickets should be addressed to the Cayce Department of Public Safety, Metts said.
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