Don't ever give your winning ticket to an employer at a store to hold onto. A Walmart cashier named Tameka Hall was arrested and fired in June 2026 after being caught on security footage stealing a customer's winning $2,700 Florida Lottery ticket. On June 14, 2026, an elderly male customer tried to cash his winning ticket at a Walmart Neighborhood Market fuel station in DeLand, Florida. Hall, 40, told him the payout exceeded the store's on-site limit, handed him a receipt with instructions to claim the prize at a lottery office, but kept the actual winning ticket. Surveillance cameras captured her folding the ticket and placing it in her uniform vest pocket before leaving for the day. The customer realized he was missing the physical ticket, returned to the store, and management called the Volusia Sheriff's Office after reviewing the security tape. When confronted by deputies the next morning, Hall claimed she pocketed it to give to a manager but forgot. Deputies found the ticket in the front seat of her personal vehicle, returned it to the owner, and booked Hall into the Volusia County Branch Jail on a felony charge of grand theft.