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Crime of opportunity was opportunity to go to jail
It was a crime of opportunity that turned into an opportunity to spend some quality time in jail for two young men.
When Dayton officers pulled up outside a tavern on Watervliet Avenue on Tuesday evening, they found two young men on the ground being held at gunpoint by an off-duty officer. The off-duty officer suggested his colleagues check the drive-thru across the street, believing the pair were responsible for a robbery.
At the drive-thru, the officers watched a security video that showed one of the men grabbing a box off the counter while the clerk was distracted by the other young man. The pair must have been excited by their swag because it was a box from the Ohio Lottery.
The pair fled, only to run into to the off-duty officer, who saw them dump the box when they spotted him.
When officers recovered the box, they found it did not contain a windfall of hundreds of lottery scratch-off tickets. Instead, the box contained the thermo-paper used by the lottery machines to print lottery tickets. Without the machine, the paper was useless.
The two — known to officers for numerous theft convictions — were hauled to jail while detectives continue their investigation.
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