A Latrobe area man is $1 million richer thanks to spending $20 on a $1 million-winning “Jackpot” scratch-off ticket at a Crabtree store last month.
“They (sales clerk and winner) were both excited that he won,” on May 25, said Tim D’Aurora, owner of the Crabtree Gas & Co along Route 119 in the Unity section of the village.
They confirmed it was a big winner when the scratch-off was scanned on a lottery ticket checker, D’Aurora said.
The winner was not identified.
He advised them to take photos of the winning scratch-off, sign the back of it and complete the claim form, D’Aurora said.
D’Aurora, whose store gets a $5,000 bonus from the lottery for selling a winning scratch-off ticket, said his store has previously sold winning lottery tickets worth $300,000 and $100,000.
There are four remaining $1 million Jackpot scratch-off tickets and 19 tickets containing a $50,000 prize. Scratch-off tickets are distributed randomly across the state to lottery ticket sellers, so the location of the winning tickets is not known, the lottery said. It learns where winning tickets are sold only after a prize has been claimed.
D’Aurora said he usually orders a sufficient number of scratch-off tickets to have some in stock if he sells out of a game.
Selling a $1 million Jackpot scratch-off ticket in Crabtree and a “$1,000,00 Winnings” scratch-off ticket at Rick’s Tobacco Outlet in Southwest Greensburg last month shows that winning tickets are distributed in Westmoreland County, D’Aurora said.
“People complain that the winning tickets go to the Philadelphia area,” D’Aurora said.