Bel Air Convenience Store Sells $2 Million Lottery Ticket

BEL AIR, MD — The 7-Eleven on Main Street in Bel Air sold a scratch-off ticket worth $2 million recently, according to the Maryland Lottery. For selling a top-prize ticket, the store will receive a $2,000 bonus from lottery officials.

The winning ticket was for the $2,000,000 Gold Rush game, which is a scratch-off game that costs $30 to play.

Authorities said the 55-year-old retired office worker purchased her ticket last week at the same store where she won $500 playing Gold Rush picking up food at a nearby restaurant.

"I bought another of the $2,000,000 Gold Rush games, scratched it and checked it on the scanner," the Fallston woman told lottery officials.

"All I could see were zeroes. I thought the thing was broken,” she said. She asked the cashier to run the ticket through the terminal because she was confused, and upon seeing the reaction of the clerk, she said: "That was when I knew."

She is the first winner of the $2 million prize since the scratch-off game debuted in late February. and four other jackpot tickets remain, according to the Maryland Lottery.

The woman and her husband plan to buy a home where their whole family will be able to vacation.