Powerball Winner: Stamford Resident Wins $1 Million

A Stamford woman is the latest person to come forward with a winning Powerball ticket that will fill up her wallet by $1 million.

Lucrecia Veloz of Stamford stepped forward to claim the second of three Powerball prizes won in Connecticut worth $1 million for the record Jan. 13 drawing.

The winning Powerball numbers drawn on Jan. 13, were 4 – 8 – 19 – 27 – 34 and Powerball 10.

Veloz’s “Quick Pick” ticket matched the first five winning numbers drawn, but missed the Powerball number. Of the 350,629 prize-winning Powerball tickets sold for that date, three contained a 5 number match for the $1,000,000 prize.

“That’s fantastic news,” said Glen Scali upon learning that his store, Grocery Express, located at 1429 E. Putnam St. in Old Greenwich, had sold the $1 million prize winning ticket. “We’re very happy that one of our customers was lucky enough to win a million dollars. It’s great to see,” Scali told the Connecticut Lottery.

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Grocery Express will receive a $2,500 check from the CT Lottery for selling the ticket.

According to the Lottery, there were four other Powerball “Match 5” prizes, worth $1 million up to $2 million, remain unclaimed.

Tickets can be checked online at ctlottery.org, by scanning in a lottery Ticket Checker, or at any lottery retailer location.