NC Education Lottery: Retired UPS driver from Apex wins $200,000 top prize
A retired UPS driver from Apex won a $200,000 top prize this week, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
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Vincent Bonanno purchased a $5 Bonus Bucks ticket from the Food Lion on West Williams Street in Apex on Monday and scratched it before he got back to his car.
“I never expected it to be the $200,000,” he said. “The first thing I did was I looked at it, and then I held it to my heart and I looked up and I said, ‘Thank you.’ I couldn’t believe I won that amount of money.”
Bonanno said he went straight home to share the news with his wife and daughter.
“I walked into the house and I told my wife, “We’re going to make a donation to our church and we’re going to buy a new car,’” said Bonanno. “She said, ‘No, we’re going out to dinner tonight!’”
After federal and state taxes, the family took home $141,501.
“I always said I was going to win,” said Bonanno. “I said this day is going to come sometime that I do win a big amount and it did today.”
Bonus Bucks, which launched this month, features six top prizes of $200,000. Five remain to be won.
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