$1,000 Pull Tab Forged, Two Arrested

An unidentified male and female walked into Joe's Log Cabin Tavern Thursday with a $1,000-winning pull tab and walked out feeling like winners.

Sadly, it was all a lie.

The couple had forged a pull tab to indicate it was a $1,000 winner.

Wenatchee Police Captain Edgar Reinfeld said the couple waited until the bar got busier so that they wouldn't get the bartender's full attention.

"There's decent video in the location, but more importantly, the female had left her debit card behind that she had opened a tab on." Reinfeld explained, "The name was different than the name that they had provided for the winnings. Officers were able to recover that as they realized the bar had been defrauded."

Officers eventually located the two suspects at the Value Inn in the 1600 block of North Wenatchee Avenue Friday morning.

The female suspect was arrested for theft, forgery, and identity theft, while the male suspect was taken on a misdemeanor arrest warrant.

Reinfeld added that the two may have committed similar crimes throughout Central Washington and especially in Grant County. Detectives are still investigating that possibility.