Employee charged with stealing lottery tickets, trying to cash winners elsewhere

A Pittsboro woman has been charged with stealing scratch-off lottery tickets from where she worked and trying to cash them at another location.

Shereda Carter, 38, of 274 Andrews Store Rd. in Pittsboro, has been charged by the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office with felony larceny by employee and felony attempt to obtain property by false pretense. She was released under a written promise to appear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on July 22. Her mug shot was not available.

Deputies said they received a report on June 7 from a local gas station of scratch-off lottery tickets being stolen. The North Carolina Lottery Commission confirmed someone had attempted to cash two of the stolen tickets at another gas station.

Surveillance footage of the suspect was obtained and Carter was later identified as the employee.