{"id":7806,"date":"2011-08-04T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2011-08-04T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:06:44","slug":"news-brief-plea-deal-struck-in-winlock-grocery-lottery-ticket-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7806","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Plea deal struck in Winlock grocery lottery ticket theft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; There isn&#8217;t going to be a trial for the Winlock grocery store manager accused last year of stealing lottery tickets from his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin C. Macy is expected in court this afternoon as a plea agreement has been reached, according to Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys will set a date for Macy to plead guilty, according to Halstead. He didn&#8217;t reveal the substance of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Macy was charged in May of last year 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 Winlock resident had worked for the store for 30 years, according to charging documents filed in Lewis County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read about the case <a title=\"&quot;Lottery ticket theft trial for Winlock grocery manager postponed&quot; from Friday July 30, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1071\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; There isn&#8217;t going to be a trial for the Winlock grocery store manager accused last year of stealing lottery tickets from his workplace. Benjamin C. Macy is expected in court this afternoon as a plea agreement has been reached, according to Lewis County Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-7806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","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=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}