Pat’s Beverages sells $1 million lottery ticket.
POTTSTOWN >> If you’ve purchased a lottery ticket within the last few days, you might want to check it again, as one area business just sold a $1 million-winning ticket.
Pat’s Beverages, 1423 E. High St., sold one of the four $1 million top-prize winning tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle drawing held Jan. 7, according to Pennsylvania Lottery officials. The other three tickets were sold by retailers in Butler, Columbia and Northampton counties.
Pat’s will receive $5,000 for selling the winning ticket.
Pat’s store owner Chung Ung said he was excited to receive the call about the winning ticket after it was announced Monday afternoon.
“First I get a bonus,” he said. “Second it will benefit my store. The news will spread out and people feel I might be the lucky place to purchase the lottery ticket in the future.”
This is Ung’s first time selling a $1 million winning ticket, he said. The closest he’s come before is a $100,000 ticket from a $5 scratch-off.
If he ever won $1 million, he said he would set it aside for his four adult children.
The big winner hasn’t come forward yet, but Ung said he hopes it’s a regular customer or someone he knows. Winners cannot be identified until the prizes are claimed and the tickets are validated. Millionaire Raffle winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.
Each $1 million top prize must be claimed by presenting a winning ticket at Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County, or at any of the Lottery’s seven area offices. Claims may be filed Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lottery headquarters and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at area offices.