Millionaire lottery ticket sold in Mt. Morris
The Mt. Morris BFS Foods Store sold one of the four, $1 million top-prize tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Halloween Millionaire Raffle drawing.
The four $1 million tickets were among the 356,904 tickets that were sold for the raffle between Aug. 25 and Saturday, the day of the drawing, the lottery announced Monday.
A lottery official called the Locust Avenue store Monday morning to inform it that one of the four top-prize tickets had been sold there, store manager Tammy Wright said.
The lottery does not know who purchased the winning tickets, Wright said. That won’t be known until the prizes are claimed and the tickets verified.
“It could be anyone,” Wright said. “We’ve been telling everybody that if they bought a ticket here, to please check it,” she said. Each ticket costs $20.
The top-prize winning raffle ticket numbers are 00075238, 00116632, 00163156 and 00352625.
Wright said she has only been at the store for about a year and had has many, smaller lottery winners.
“As far as I know, this is the biggest one we’ve ever sold,” she said.
The store is only about a block from the Mt. Morris interchange of Interstate 79. Though many local residents patronize it, the store also gets a fair share of business from motorists on the interstate.
“We get a lot of people who are traveling, but I’m hoping (the winner) is someone local,” Wright said.
The three other top-prize tickets were sold in Girard and Northeast, both in Erie County, and in Royersford, Montgomery County. Each store that sold a top-prize winning ticket will receive a $5,000 selling bonus.
The game awarded a total of 6,000 prizes worth $5,089,200. This included four prizes of $100,000, 100 prizes of $1,000 and 5,892 prizes of $100.
Millionaire Raffle winners have one year from the Oct. 31 drawing date to claim their prizes.
Each $1 million top prize must be claimed by presenting a winning ticket at Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County, or at any of the Lottery’s seven area offices. The paperwork necessary to claim the top prize, however, is available at the Mt. Morris BFS Store, Wright said.