:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/EDNCDUW5CFAQFBEV2SR573XP6Y.jpg "A person shows up to collect a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon")
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball lottery numbers in the $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to collect it, Oregon officials said.
The ticket was purchased at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in the northeast part of the city, Oregon Lottery said in a statement.
Oregon Lottery is working with the person on a process involving security and verification measures that will require time before a winner is announced.
“For the Oregon Lottery, this is an unprecedented jackpot win,” Mike Wells, director of the Oregon Lottery, said in the release. “We are taking every precaution to verify the winner before awarding the prize money.”
The jackpot has a cash value of $621 million if the winner chooses to receive a lump sum instead of an annuity paid over 30 years, which consists of an immediate payment followed by 29 annual partial payments. Prize is subject to federal taxes and state levies in Oregon.
It was the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in history and the eighth-largest among jackpot games in the United States, according to the Oregon Lottery.
The largest jackpot in a US lottery was $2.04 billion in California in 2022.
“Plaid Pantry is thrilled to learn that one of our 104 stores in Oregon sold the $1.3 billion Powerball lottery ticket,” Jonathan Polonsky, president and CEO of Plaid Pantry, said in the statement.
Outside the store Monday night, Mimi Musser of Beaverton said she buys lottery tickets almost daily and wanted to visit the store that sold the winning ticket.
“I’m so happy that Oregon finally won the big jackpot, because it always happens on the East Coast,” Musser said. “Now that Oregon won it… there’s more hope for Oregon. Maybe we’ll do it again. gain”.