Store's lottery sales could be stopped

WARREN – A West Side convenience store could be stopped from ever selling Ohio Lottery tickets, as its owner is accused of trying to withhold some of a winner’s prize.

For now, Warren Gas Mart, 1744 W. Market Street, is banned from selling any game tickets for a month, beginning March 5.

“Our integrity is very important to us,” Mardele Cohen, an Ohio Lottery Commission spokeswoman, said Monday. “It’s inappropriate. You don’t take things that don’t belong to you,” Cohen added.

Store owner Samir Aburahma, 52, of Trumbull Avenue, Liberty, has pleaded innocent in municipal court to a charge of petty theft. He is free on a $2,500 bond and will appear before Judge Terry Ivanchak at 1:30 p.m. April 2.

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