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Phillip Piña of Los Ojos, who owns and runs an auto repair shop in Chama, is the winner of the $62.8 million Powerball.
Piña, who has been playing Powerball since 1996 by buying two tickets a week, won with a $5 ticket.
He says that now he will "pretty much retire, relax a bit, build a new shop and repair old cars."
Piña had heard the winning numbers on the radio when he was leaving work Thursday evening. He'd kept the ticket, purchased at a local gas station, in a cup holder in his car. "I laughed," he said Wednesday. "I put my reading glasses on. They were all lined up." The first person he told, he said, was his girlfriend, Adeline Aguilar.
"I said, do you believe in miracles? ...I just hit the powerball." Pina would not say whether he intends to take the nearly $30 million cash payout or an annuity that would pay the full $62.8 million over 30 years. Lottery officials said taxes will take about 31 percent. The winning numbers: 3, 11, 24, 36 and 38, with the Powerball No. 6. Full coverage and more interviews in Thursday's Albuquerque Journal. 
Phillip Piña of Los Ojos, who owns and runs an auto repair shop in Chama, is the winner of the $62.8 million Powerball. Piña, who has been playing Powerball since 1996 by buying two tickets a week, won with a $5 ticket. |
The New Mexico Lottery Authority has scheduled a 2:30 p.m. news conference today in Albuquerque with the state's winner of the $62.8 million Powerball drawing coming forward.
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