A United States Marine from Yuma, Arizona, has won $1 million in the Arizona Lottery's $100 Million Cash Spectacular Scratchers game.
"It was an honor to award this prize to an active-duty Marine, a man committed to serving America as a member of our Armed Forces," said Jeff Hatch-Miller, executive director of the Arizona Lottery. "We were all thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate this winner, and to know this win will positively impact his life."
According to lottery officials, the Marine, who wishes to remain anonymous, claimed his prize last week. He won the ninth of ten available $1 million top prizes that the scratcher game offers.
Lottery officials say the Marine, who is being deployed overseas within the next few months, found $10 in his pocket when he stopped at a store in Yuma. He purchased one $100 Million Cash Spectacular Scratchers ticket, which turned out to be a $1 million winner.
The ticket was purchased at Barney's, located at 2381 S. Ave. B in Yuma. He will receive the prize in a 20-year annuity, resulting in $50,000 a year before taxes.
The $100 Million Cash Spectacular Scratchers boasts more than $100 million in cash prizes, including 10 $1 million grand prizes. In total, there are more than 4.8 million prizes ranging from $10 to $1 million, including more than 391,000 prizes from $50 to $500 and more than 5,400 prizes from $1,000 to $50,000. One $1 million Cash Spectacular Scratchers grand prize ticket still remains.
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God bless.
Good for him! Great to hear about a man who serves this country have such a blessing like this. Congrats to him!
Awesome, Semper Fi Marine, and God Bless!
Congrats to the winner, may God bless you & all the men & women who serve & protect our Country
What a great story!
God bless him for his service to our country.
Semper Fi.
glad to see a active Marine win , hope he was family to enjoy the money with :D
, who wishes to remain anonymous, smart one at that......
good for Arizona also letting them just do it the easy way, and not leaveing the hard way thro trusts as people only options.
sense only pb/mm winners seem to care to even brother with that hard way, lawyer/trust method to much cost/time/brains for must people LOL
This is great !!!
Oh, how incredible! It would have been a cherry on the cake if he finally came home after completing his tour AND won the cool mil!
CONGRATULATIONS! I am not brave enough to serve but I thank him for defending my freedom.
Congratulations, $1M lottery annuity winner!
Now, over the next 20 years you can enjoy this $35K net per year payout from your tidy lottery win! If you retain full-time work during those years, you'll hopefully have enough money to live on so that you can invest that lotteries deposit's FULL amount in: options market, tax deed, and/or tax lien certificates investments, and keep rolling over the growing balance each month.
Congrats to the winner!
Awesome - Good for you & Thank you for your service
Congrats to the lucky winner, and Thank you !
This is so cool...our soldiers are under-paid anyway. Nice extra income for his family...hopefully it will ally any financial stress.
That has to be a great feeling especially with the state of the economy today.
Happy Winning!
A little while ago I read about an Army guy winning....now a Marine has won. I guess it is time for this Navy guy or some Navy or Air Force person to win a lottery jackpot. Congrats Marine and take care.
Amazing