Brother picks up a $1 million lottery ticket for California woman

A California woman said she is going to buy her brother a new car after she gave him some money to buy her a lottery ticket and he came back with a $1 million winner.

The winner, identified as J. Garcia, told California Lottery officials she gave her brother some cash to buy her a scratch-off ticket.

Once in a while I give my brother $20, and, because I know he loves to buy tickets, I tell him to buy me a ticket,” Garcia said.

Garcia’s brother called her from Cardenas Market on Lincoln Avenue to tell her he had secured her a Loteria scratch-off game.

Garcia told her brother to scratch the ticket off to save her a potential trip to the store if it was only a $5 prize.

“I think you won,” Garcia recalled her brother saying over the phone.

“No,” she replied.

He brought her the ticket, which she took to a lottery office and confirmed it was indeed a $1 million winner.

“I went to the California Lottery office, and they told me, ‘Yeah, you won,'” she said. “That’s when it hit me.”

Source : UPI News