A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she took a Walmart customer's winning lottery ticket, totaling $2,700, police records show.

Tameka Hall, 40, is facing one felony charge of grand theft of property valued between $750 and $5,000, according to an arrest affidavit from the Volusia Sheriff's Office.

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According to the affidavit, a customer - who told police he plays the same lottery numbers every day - went to the Walmart in DeLand, Florida, on June 14 to cash in a ticket that had won him $2,700.

After verifying the man's winning ticket, Hall, the cashier at the store, told him that his earnings were too large for her to provide to him on site, the affidavit said. Instead, she provided him a receipt with instructions on how to cash in the ticket elsewhere.


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But Hall, when handing the man the instructions, neglected to return the ticket itself, which is required when trading in a lottery ticket for cash, the affidavit said.

The man later returned to the Walmart to retrieve his missing ticket, but it couldn't be found.

The store manager, who also spoke to police, said she saw Hall pocket the winning ticket on store surveillance video after she handed the victim the instructions on what to do next, the affidavit said. Hall then left work for the day and never returned the ticket.

When police spoke to Hall the next day, she told officers she had intended to return the ticket to a manager, even though she still had it in her possession, according to the affidavit.

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She also said she was not aware of the fact that the victim would need the physical ticket to obtain his earnings from anothe

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