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A young worker barely 18 years became a new millionaire in North Carolina, when he won $1 million on a ticket Scratch-off from the Lottery of this state.
Dalton Radford’s routine changed radically on his way to his second job and decided to stop at a store to buy a drink and two North Carolina Lottery Scratch-Off tickets.
The young man is a public works employee from Dallas, a small city in North Carolina, he reported that he bought the tickets on December 2 at a Will’s store Food Store III, located on Dallas High Shoals Highway in Old North State.
“I was on my way to my second job and decided to stop for a drink and two tickets of Carolina Jackpot”, recalled Radford in a statement ation consigned in a statement from the North Carolina Lottery.
After the purchase, the young worker decided to take a break in the parking lot of the establishment and take the opportunity to test your luck with the two scratch-off tickets you had bought.
When he started scratching off, one of the two tickets was the winner of a $1 million prize of dollars.
“I thought: hey, I just won a million of dollars! So I called my mom, my dad and my grandfather, ”the winner narrated about the day his luck changed. “Everyone was very happy,” he added.
A curious fact in Radford’s story is that he claims that his grandfather had told him a couple of weeks before that he would win a $1 million prize with a Scratch-Off ticket.
How much money Radford took with his millionaire scratch-off
Like all lotteries in the country, the Radford Millionaire Prize had two payment options: annual fees of $54, dollars for 18 years or a cash payment of $426,0000 Dollars.
With his ticket in hand, the lucky winner went to the North Carolina Lottery to claim his prize, which collected in a single payment , as detailed by the lottery authorities a.
According to the reports, after the collection of commissions and state and federal taxes, the young worker received a check for $426,100 dollars, detailed the board of the North Carolina Lottery.
Radford said he plans to save most of his prize money; however, he shared that he does plan to make an immediate expense to buy a new truck and improve the one he currently has.
Young man is the first winner of a $1 million dollar jackpot in the Carolina Jackpot drawing, which began to be sold last June.
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