Man flees police traffic stop, leaves behind winning lottery ticket

When the situation calls for a swift exit, there’s not always time to check you have everything you need on your person.

Certainly, a fleet-footed felon in Georgia must have felt mildly annoyed despite making a successful getaway from the cops.

The man managed to flee a police traffic stop on Interstate 75, but at a price – he left behind a winning lottery ticket worth $100, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

“To the suspect who ran on foot from our deputies on a traffic stop this morning on I-75, you left a winning $100.00 lottery ticket in your vehicle,” the agency wrote Monday on Facebook.

They teasingly added that all the anonymous athlete had to do to collect the scratch-off ticket was swing by the sheriff’s office.

“Yes he will get his lottery ticket back, but we are keeping his methamphetamine,” the agency wrote.

Sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Jay Baker told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the man was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over for a tag violation. After he ran off into the woods, the lottery ticket was found in a backpack that also had the methamphetamine.

The unidentified suspect was later taken into custody, Baker said.