{"id":1071,"date":"2010-07-30T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-07-30T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T14:39:23","slug":"lottery-ticket-theft-trial-for-winlock-grocery-manager-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Lottery ticket theft trial for Winlock grocery manager postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nCHEHALIS &#8211; The trial date for the Winlock grocery store manager accused of stealing lottery tickets has been pushed into October as attorneys go through a crate full of evidence and reports.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin C. Macy was charged in May with two counts of second-degree theft after a video surveillance camera allegedly showed him scratching off dozens of $20 tickets at 4:30 in the morning at the Cedar Village IGA.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old has pleaded not guilty and is free on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Macy, a Winlock resident, has worked for the store for 30 years, according to charging documents filed in Lewis County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Charging documents give the following account:<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh Stone, the owner of the grocery store contacted Winlock Police Chief Terry Williams in early May after he found several scratch tickets in the trash can in Macy&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The tickets were sequential, and not played in the normal fashion. Just the hidden code was exposed &#8211; the code used by lottery merchants to verify winners.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and another officer set up a hidden camera to record the service center in the store at night for a period of about two weeks. On two nights, the camera recorded Macy open up three packets, each containing 75 $20 scratch tickets. The video showed him scratch the area to expose the hidden code necessary to see if the tickets were winners.<\/p>\n<p>On May 22, the police chief contacted Macy at the store and spoke with him.<\/p>\n<p>Macy allegedly said he has been doing it for about three years, although not every day. He said he sometimes pays for the tickets. He was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>A trial is set for the week of Oct. 18 and expected to last three days. Macy is represented by Centralia attorney Jonathan Meyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The trial date for the Winlock grocery store manager accused of stealing lottery tickets has been pushed into October as attorneys go through a crate full of evidence and reports. Benjamin C. Macy was charged in May with two counts of second-degree theft after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}