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Thief Gets 2 Years for Damaging Store, Stealing Lottery Tickets

   Written by on December 23, 2014 at 2:20 pm

Daitrous Omar Ghee, a 27-year-old former Lunenburg man with recent residency in Nottoway at 4603 W. Courthouse Rd.. was sentenced in Lunenburg Circuit Court recently to six years in prison, with all but two years suspended on one felony count of Damaging Property and one misdemeanor count of Petit Larceny.

Daitrous Ghee

Daitrous Ghee

In summarizing the evidence for the court, Commonwealth’s Attorney Clement said that on June 14, 2014, the Victoria Police Department responded to an alarm at the former convenience store on Main Street known as Waseem Mart.  The glass door had been broken out and entry gained into the store.  It was determined that some lottery tickets had been stolen.

Investigator Michael Landry and Officer Rosheen Watson determined that attempts had been made at some stores in Blackstone to cash the tickets, but the State Lottery office had entered the tickets into its computer system as stolen so they could not be cashed.  Video surveillance revealed the person attempting to cash the tickets at one store to be Ghee.

Ghee denied stealing the tickets, stating that he won them in a dice game in Victoria the night before.  The juvenile he accused denied he had even been in Victoria.

Clement said the active sentence was within the Sentencing Guidelines range.

Conditions of Ghee’s suspended portion of his sentence include good behavior, supervised probation upon his release, staying off the property of the victim, restitution of $695, and warrantless searches.

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