Sister sends brother to buy lottery tickets in California. He picks out a big winner
A woman gave her brother some money to buy her lottery tickets in Southern California.
She ended up with a $1 million prize.
The brother stopped at Cardenas Markets in Corona “late last year,” the California Lottery said in a March 14 news release.
“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,” the woman told lottery officials.
She asked him to get her $10 LOTERIA Grande tickets and had him scratch them while at the store.
“I think you won,” she recalled him saying to her over the phone that day.
But she didn’t believe him, so he sent a photo of the winning ticket worth $1 million.
He then showed her the ticket when she got home, and she still didn’t believe him, lottery officials said.
“I went to the California Lottery office, and they told me, ‘Yeah, you won!’” she told lottery officials. “That’s when it hit me.”
She is considering using her prize to buy an income property and will get her brother a new car.
Corona is about a 25-mile drive southwest from San Bernardino.
This story was originally published March 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM with the headline "Sister sends brother to buy lottery tickets in California. He picks out a big winner."
