EVERETT, Wash.  (Metro)  -- Police arrest an employee at an Everett gas station and convenience store after he allegedly tried to commit lottery fraud. 

Authorities say the employee was handed a lottery scratch ticket by a man who asked the cashier to see if he had won any money. 

Officials say the 62-year-old cashier left and came back minutes later, told the customer he had won $200, then pulled $200 in cash from his pocket and handed it to the customer. 

Police say the "customer" was actually a state lottery investigator, and the ticket was actually worth $20,000 dollars, which the cashier was trying to redeem at a lottery office before he was arrested by Everett police.

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