Paul Little, the rightful winner of the $3 million prize from a Mega Millions lottery ticket, had no idea he was a millionaire. And he wasn’t able to claim his prize for 6 months.
He purchased the winning ticket in the Lakeville Market & Liquors on January 17. Investigators could reconstruct what happened using store surveillance video and the time-stamped tickets.
Little purchased two Mega Millions Quick Picks and two Mass Cash tickets, adding the multiplier to increase his win. And he also purchased a bag of barbecue potato chips. Then he left 2 tickets behind.
Carly Nunes and Joseph Reddem, 32, were working as clerks at the store that day.
Nunes, 23, the clerk who printed out the tickets for Little, mistakenly gave them to the next customer. He returned them to her. And that’s when she figured out that the tickets must have belonged to Little.
$3 Million Prize
According to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, Nunes took the tickets home with her. And the numbers were drawn that night. And she had a multi-million dollar winning ticket.
