PERRY TWP, Clarion County — A Parker man is accused of breaking into a social club and stealing a pull tab ticket machine.

The heist last week didn’t pay off.

The alleged break-in at the Allegheny-Clarion Valley Sportsman’s Club in Perry Township netted the suspect, 20-year-old Randy M. Weckerly, only $40, authorities said.

It only got worse for Weckerly. He landed in the Clarion County Jail after state police arrested him Monday. He is being held on $25,000 bail.

Investigators believe the defendant between Feb. 8 and Saturday smashed an upstairs window to get inside the social club on Sportsmans Road, which is a 10-minute drive from his house.

He snatched up the organization’s peel-off ticket machine.

“It’s pretty heavy, maybe 20 to 30 pounds,” Trooper T.J. Lauer, the investigating officer, said Tuesday.

Weckerly allegedly drove away with the machine. But when he opened it, he was likely disappointed.

“He claimed there was only $40 in it,” Lauer said.

A rudimentary surveillance system previously rigged by club officials aided the police investigation that led to Weckerly’s arrest.

Since the club had no sophisticated video security inside, officers made do with what they could.

“They set up a game type (trail) camera,” Lauer said.

The camera captured still images of the burglar, including one decent one that showed the suspect, walking straight ahead, holding a flashlight in one hand and a beverage can in the other.

“He wore no disguise,” Lauer said of the defendant.

Police distributed the photograph to a web-based media outlet in Clarion. Once posted on the Internet, it didn’t take long for tips to come in.

“We got three calls within an hour,” Lauer said. All the tipsters identified Weckerly as the man in the photo.

Police later found the suspect — and the stolen ticket machine — at his house.

District Judge Jeffrey Miller on Monday arraigned Weckerly on felony charges of burglary and theft, and two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief.

A preliminary hearing is set for Tuesday at Miller’s courtroom in New Bethlehem.