Woman wins $1M on scratch-off lottery ticket

CAPE CORAL, Fla – A Cape Coral pistillate deed the jackpot winning $1 cardinal connected a $30 scratch-off lottery ticket.

60-year-old Maria Lezcano chose to person her winnings arsenic a one-time, lump-sum outgo of $880,000, according to the Florida Lottery.

Lezcano bought her winning lottery summons from Petro America, located astatine 3 Northeast Pine Island Road successful Cape Coral. The retailer volition get a kickback of $2,000 for selling the winning lottery ticket.

The lottery ticket, ‘Billion Dollar Gold Rush Supreme,’ features 4 apical prizes of $15 million. This crippled besides features 24 prizes of $1 million.

Florida Lottery games person paid much than $77.6 cardinal successful prizes and made much than 3,000 millionaires portion sending astir 900,000 students to assemblage done the Bright Futures Scholarship Program, according to Florida Lottery officials.