Store clerk charged with embezzling lottery tickets
October 18, 2011

RALEIGH -- Wake Sheriff's deputies today charged a store clerk with embezzling thousands of dollars in lottery tickets from the convenience store where she worked.

After her arrest, federal immigration officials placed a detainer on her because they think she may be in this country illegally, court records show.

Perla Janeth Rebollar Echeveria, 25, of 306 South Bend Drive in Knightdale, has been charged with one felony count of embezzlement, according to an arrest warrant filed this afternoon at the Wake County Magistrate's Office.

Agents with the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement also placed a hold on Echeveria because they think she may be in the United States illegally from Mexico, court records show.

If the Knightdale woman is in this country illegally, she may be deported after she is prosecuted on the embezzlement charge.

Sheriff's investigators think Echeveria embezzled about $7,000 worth of scratch off tickets from the N.C. Educational Lottery while she was employed at the Carolina Open Air Market.

Sheriff's deputies think the offense occurred in late August at the Carolina Open Air Market in Raleigh, court records show.

Echeveria is in custody at the Wake County jail under a $4,000 bail, court records show.

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