Halifax police have arrested a man and woman they say stole lottery tickets and then proceeded to cash them in.
Police say they made the arrests after the pair stole tickets from a convenience store on Tuesday and left in a taxi, which was located the next day.
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They say they found lotto tickets the accused had tried to hide in the cab and that their investigation later linked the pair to 11 other lottery ticket thefts.
Thirty-four-year-old Dwayne Kenneth Wright of Dartmouth and 23-year-old Hayley Anne Margaret Johnson of Halifax each face numerous charges of theft, fraud and possession of property obtained by crime along with dozens of counts of breach of probation.