$100K Powerball Ticket Goes Unclaimed

DEARBORN, MI — On June 19, 2016, somebody walked into a Michigan Avenue BP gas station in Dearborn and purchased a Powerball ticket in hopes of winning the jackpot. That person, whoever it was, didn’t hit the big one.

Instead, the Powerball player won $100,000. Unfortunately, the winner never showed up in Lansing to claim the prize, according to state lottery officials.

But that doesn’t mean the money will go to waste. The $100,000 will wind up being spent in state classrooms via the School Aid Fund.

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The ticket expired at 4:45 p.m after being sold a year earlier at 15500 Michigan Avenue. Powerball tickets are valid for one year from the date of the drawing. It was the second major Michigan Lottery draw game prize to go unclaimed this year, lottery officials said.

In May, a $105,000 Fantasy 5 jackpot went unclaimed. The record for an unclaimed Lottery prize in Michigan is $34 million. It was set in 1998, when a winning Michigan Lotto game ticket, purchased at the Meijer located at 1350 West Lake Lansing Road in East Lansing, went unclaimed.

Photo courtesy of the Michigan state lottery