{"id":99589,"date":"2025-12-30T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:31:08","slug":"man-stole-1000-winning-lottery-ticket-from-lost-wallet-in-st-pete-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99589\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Stole $1,000-Winning Lottery Ticket From Lost Wallet In St. Pete: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested for stealing a $1,000-winning lottery ticket from a lost wallet, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n<p>Video from a store on 22nd Street South showed Norman Isaac, 61, picking up someone else\u2019s wallet, which held the winter lottery ticket, on Friday around 4:30 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pinellascounty\/stolen-lottery-ticket-st-pete-man-arrested\/67-6db0ee36-180c-4af8-8192-c822bd9fd925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WTSP reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Staff at the store caught him trying to cash the ticket after realizing it was sold to the victim two days earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/st-pete-man-arrested-after-stealing-victims-winning-lottery-ticket-affidavit-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WFLA said<\/a>. The clerk checked the camera and the ticket\u2019s lot number. <\/p>\n<p>Isaac was arrested on Friday around 5:30 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/iontb.com\/surveillance-video-ties-suspect-to-stolen-1000-lottery-ticket-in-st-petersburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IONTB.com<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>He was found with one gram of crack cocaine and three grams of powder cocaine in six bags, reports said. <\/p>\n<p>He was charged with grand theft of more than $750 and less than $5,000 and possession of cocaine, Pinellas County Jail records show. <\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested for stealing a $1,000-winning lottery ticket from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-99589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}