COEUR d'ALENE — An employee who allegedly scratched her itch for cash by stealing lottery tickets at a Coeur d’Alene convenience store is facing five felonies.

Rhyleigh M. Parga, 20, a former employee at the U.S. 95 Jifi Stop on the 300 block of West Appleway, is accused of stealing 10 lottery tickets, cashing in the winners and pocketing more than $110.

Parga appeared Friday in Coeur d’Alene Magistrate Court, where she was formally charged with four counts of presenting a stolen scratch lottery ticket and one count of burglary. The charges are all felonies. Magistrate Robert Caldwell released her on her own recognizance.

Police said Parga was a clerk at the Appleway Jifi Stop during the last week of April, working the afternoon shift, when she repeatedly removed lottery tickets from a roll, scratched them, and paid herself for winning tickets under the wide angle lens of a store security camera.

She took some of the winning tickets to the Fourth Street Jifi stop to cash. Parga can be seen on video cashing in a $50 winner and two $30 winners, police say.

In an interview with police, Parga admitted to stealing the tickets, but said she couldn’t remember how many she took, although she thought it was fewer than 10.

She said she used the money “to help a baby,” but did not elaborate.

The maximum penalty for stealing lottery tickets is a $25,000 fine and five years in prison.

In Idaho, 50 percent of lottery profits fund public schools. The remainder is used as part of the state’s permanent building fund to finance colleges and universities, according to the lottery commission. It has returned more than $846 million to the state over 29 years, and last year the Idaho Lottery returned $53,500,000 to the state, according to the commission.