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Fleeing suspect abandons winning lottery ticket, Georgia sheriff says

A lottery ticket worth $100 was left behind by a fleeing suspect, according to the Cherokee County, Ga., Sheriff's Office.
A winning lottery ticket worth $100 was left behind by a fleeing suspect, according to the Cherokee County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office., which posted this photo on Facebook.
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A man in Georgia left his good luck behind when he abandoned a winning lottery ticket while fleeing sheriff’s deputies.

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says the man had a Georgia Lottery scratch game card worth $100 when he ran away during a traffic stop on Interstate 75 on Monday.

In a Facebook post, it offered its congratulations and invited him to claim the ticket at its office in Canton about 40 miles north of Atlanta.

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The man, who was not identified, was later taken into custody, Capt. Jay Baker, a sheriff’s spokesman, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Baker said the man was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over for a tag violation, and he ran into the woods. The lottery ticket was in a backpack that also had methamphetamine, according to Baker. The man can have the lottery ticket back, but the sheriff’s office said it will keep the drugs.

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