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$221M Lottery Winner In Camden County Claims Historic Prize
The married couple who owns the convenience store that sold the winning ticket will use their prize money to travel.
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LINDENWOLD, NJ — The winner of a $221 million lottery prize, who purchased the ticket from a South Jersey convenience store, will choose to remain anonymous.
The ticket secured June 10's Powerball jackpot, marking South Jersey's biggest lottery win in a decade. The anonymous winner elected to take the one-time cash payment of $104.7 million, according to NJ Lottery officials.
Preet Food Mart in Lindenwold received $30,000 for selling the ticket. Co-owners Tejinder Singh and Rajvinder Kaur Ghotra, a married couple, plan to use the money to travel. They have never been to Europe, and the prize money gives them many different opportunities.
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The ticket secured the fourth-largest lottery prize in South Jersey history and the Garden State's biggest lottery win of the calendar year. However, the $1.13 billion ticket sold at the Jersey Shore in March remains unclaimed as of Monday, according to lottery officials.
A state law passed in 2020 allows lottery winners in New Jersey to remain anonymous. But participants claiming prizes worth $600 or more must present their identity to lottery officials.
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