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Jury Duty Prompts $50K Lottery Win In Anne Arundel For Prince George's Man
A man won $50,000 in the Maryland Lottery while heading to jury duty. The Prince George's County man won his prize in Anne Arundel County.
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — A Prince George's County man won $50,000 on a Maryland Lottery ticket that he bought in Anne Arundel County while heading to jury duty.
The winner, Marc Holly, is a frequent lottery player. On his way to work, Holly usually buys a Bonus Match 5 draw game ticket from the same store with the same numbers. He changed it up last Wednesday when he had to catch a bus before jury duty.
Holly stopped at the Lothian Dash In, but the gas station convenience store was crowded. The Lanham resident didn't have time to wait in line and choose his normal numbers, so he let the machine pick random ones instead.
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Holly checked the results that night on his lottery mobile application and realized he scored the game's top prize. This was the 34th top prize won this year in the Bonus Match 5 game.
"I was excited," Holly said in a Monday press release announcing his victory. "I immediately woke up my wife to tell her about it."
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The construction worker plans to use some of his winnings to catch up on bills.
Dash In No. 11342, located at 1378 Mt. Zion Marlboro Road, will also get a $500 bonus for selling the top-prize winning ticket.
Around Anne Arundel County
Two more lottery players won or claimed a combined $38,280 last week in Anne Arundel County.
These were the county's other top victories:
Prize: $28,280
Location: Odenton (High's No. 048, 1624 Annapolis Road)
Game: Racetrax (Animated horseracing)
Sold: Last Thursday
Status: Unclaimed as of Monday
Prize: $10,000
Location: Linthicum Heights (Royal Farms No. 193-E, 803 Pinnacle Drive)
Game: Show Me $1,000,000! (Scratch-off)
Status: Claimed
Across Maryland
Around the state, 39 tickets worth at least $10,000 were sold or redeemed in the week ending Sept. 18. The Maryland Lottery paid nearly $33.1 million in prizes over those seven days.
The state's top prize of $2 million came on a $2,000,000 Gold Rush scratch-off ticket sold at Cork 'N' Bottle in Mount Airy. That player already claimed their winnings.
To learn how to claim a prize, visit mdlottery.com/winners/how-to-claim.
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