HOUSTON -- They say you have to play to win.  But police say one man won quite a bit without playing at all.

Raymond Hinojosa was an employee of G-Tech, the private company that manages the Texas Lottery.

According to cops, Hinojosa went to a Cigs for Less store in Pasadena, saying he was there to take their $30 Lucky Millions scratch-off tickets to another retailer, since they weren't selling well at that particular store.

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Except, police say, that wasn’t entirely the truth.

A grand jury found evidence that Hinojosa kept the tickets himself, scratching them off one by one until he had won more than $10,000.

“I think that incident had a big effect on how we ceased that program,” Bobby Heath of the Texas Lottery said.

The policy has since been changed – G-Tech employees are no longer allowed to move scratch-off tickets from one store to another. 

As it turns out, that type of transfer used to happen so often, it had a name: “Trunk Stock.”

But could other employees of G-Tech have committed the same crime Hinojosa is accused of?  The lottery is looking into it.

“We are doing some internal work regarding the initial investigation, just internally, just to look at some tickets and how widespread and things like that,” Heath said.