{"id":17700,"date":"2025-01-05T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-wins-5-million-lottery-prize-off-30-scratcher-ticket\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:06:27","slug":"trucker-wins-5-million-lottery-prize-off-30-scratcher-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-wins-5-million-lottery-prize-off-30-scratcher-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker wins $5 million lottery prize off $30 scratcher ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A truck driver won millions from a lottery ticket purchased while passing through North Carolina for work, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>On December 28, 2024, Inman, South Carolina-based truck driver Melchor Aguilar purchased the life-changing 200X The Cash scratch-off\u00a0ticket at Kangaroo Express on East Swannanoa Avenue in Liberty, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The $30 scratchers ticket turned out to be a $5 million winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/nclottery.com\/News\/2025\/1\/2\/Truck-driver-hauls-in-a-5-million-scratch-off-win-\">according to North Carolina Lottery officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Aguilar arrived at lottery headquarters to claim his prize, he chose to take the lump sum of $3 million instead of an annuity of $250,000 over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>After taxes, Aguilar took home $2,152,508.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/trucker-wins-5-million-lottery-prize-off-30-scratcher-ticket\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver won millions from a lottery ticket purchased while passing through North Carolina for work, officials say. On December 28, 2024, Inman, South Carolina-based truck driver Melchor Aguilar purchased the life-changing 200X The Cash scratch-off\u00a0ticket at Kangaroo Express on East Swannanoa Avenue in Liberty, North Carolina. The $30 scratchers ticket turned out to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}