Customer Doesn't Claim $1.4M Lottery Ticket, Store Owners Track The Person Down, Report Says

When Yogi Patel and his wife Vilsa discovered that a patron of their store had not claimed a nearly $1.4 million scratch-off lottery ticket, they tracked the person down, The Record reported.

Assemblyman Gary Schaer honored the owners of Leprechaun News in Rutherford Friday for their honesty, the report said.

Patel and his wife discovered that a million-dollar scratch off had registered in the store’s computer, but no one had claimed the winnings, the report stated.

Yogi remembered that one of his regular customers who played that type of scratch-off often came into the store earlier that day to collect some winnings, the report stated, the report states; They later tracked the customer down.