Police Track Down Burglary Suspects By Tracing Stolen Lottery Tickets

UPPER PITTSGROVE, Nj. (CBS) -- Stolen lottery tickets, worth $6, led to the arrest of two men caught on camera burglarizing a home.

You may remember the video, from Upper Pittsgrove in Salem County. In it, you can see the two men robbing a house.

They fled the property when the owner of that house yelled at them remotely through a home surveillance system.

(credit: CBS 3)

Police said the suspects stole three $2 winning lottery tickets. The tickets were cashed in.

They traced those tickets to a store in Camden and then arrested Joshua Robinson, 32, of Deptford and 28-year-old Eric Gilch of Blackwood.

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