Winning Lottery Tickets Thrown Into The Trash

Multiple media outlets report that Cedric Jackson on Friday thought that he had narrowly missed winning a $5,000 jackpot on two lottery tickets.

Jackson says he asked a convenience store employee to throw the tickets away on Saturday, but later that day realized that his tickets had in fact been winners. Jackson returned to the store. After going through the store’s trash can and dumpster in vain, Jackson left the store empty-handed.

It was not until later in the day that the employee, Ricky Singh, remembered that he had thrown the tickets into a trash can inside an inner office. Singh called Jackson to tell him he had found the winning tickets.