Winning Powerball Ticket

         NJ Man Claims to Have Winning Powerball Ticket

The single champ of a $338 million Powerball bonanza validated the scoring ticket this evening where it was obtained: Eagle Liquor in Passaic, N.J., lottery authorities stated today.

"Evidently, the champ was listening to my counsel throughout today's public interview noticing getting the ticket validated," stated Carole Hedinger, official chief of the New Jersey Lottery, in a composed news discharge. "I am anticipating gathering the victor."

A man named Pedro Quezada, 44, appeared at the store today asserting that he was the champ.

Then again, starting this nighttime, lottery authorities still had not affirmed the champ's name.

"We don't have even an inkling the name of the individual authoritatively however we do realize that the ticket is good and it was validated," stated Judy Drucker, a New Jersey Lottery representative. "It might have been great to know [the name] however we caught that he brought the case shape with him so gathering he's heading off to be documenting it out at home."

Quezada told news people in Spanish that he was "extremely upbeat" and that he proposed to help his family, The Associated Press reported.

His neighbors on a short, deadlock square of pads that adjoins a thruway told the AP that it was a tight-weave neighborhood.


"This is super for every last one of us on this square," Eladia Vazquez, has existed over the road from Quezada's raising for as far back as 25 years, told the AP. "They merit it in light of the fact that they are hardworking individuals."

At a news gathering previous today, a goliath yellow look at made to "New Jersey Lottery Winner" took all important focal point.

"We are sitting tight for the champ to contact us, or the plausible victors," Hedinger stated. "Whoever they are, they might as well mark the back of that ticket and put it in a sheltered place."

She urged whoever has the scoring ticket to "move along at a comfortable pace" and "look for pro exhortation" before they approach to case the prize. Assuming that the big stake is taken in a knot aggregate, the product left after expenses might be a cool $151,920,000, Hedinger stated.

New Jersey does not offer secrecy to lottery victors, Hedinger stated, and their names and main residences are part of general society record.

Sunil Sethi, 51, the holder of Eagle Liquor, was elate his store sold the scoring ticket.

"We dependably had a dream to advertise this ticket. We did it. It's a dream work out as expected," he stated, guaranteeing to give the ticketholder "superb blessings and embraces" when they guarantee their prize.

Sethi called it his "most prosperous day in quite a while" and stated individuals were running to his store to purchase more tickets and check their old ones.

As far as it matters for it, Eagle Liquor will get a $10,000 reward for pushing the scoring ticket.

More than $41 million worth of tickets were sold for the attracting New Jersey, which Hedinger stated is a shelter for the state.

The chief of Love's Travel Stops & Country Store in Bordentown, N.J., at first stated he may have sold the scoring ticket after he stated he gained a call from an upbeat truck driver who guaranteed to have matched every one of the six numbers.

"Upon listening to his voice, he did sound upbeat, sort of similar to an alleviation such as he wouldn't need to fill in as hard and fantastic to catch that for somebody," store chief Isaiah DeVries told early at the beginning of today.

Hedinger stated lottery authorities had not addressed anybody at the Bordentown store, yet they are certain the ticket was sold in Passiac, in the northern part of the state.