Lotto winner: UB student and mother
The utility company may be broke but a UB nursing student and a mother of three is a more than a hundred thousand dollars richer. Tonight twenty-eight year old Erlett Lozano also has a new status: lotto winner. The Belmopan resident found out she won Wednesday’s hundred and twenty thousand dollar jackpot this morning and presented herself this afternoon at the Topical Gaming Company’s office to pick up her cheque.
Erlett Lozano, $120,000 Lotto Winner
“I came home after one of my classes and a friend came by and told me the numbers. So I checked my ticket and those were the numbers so I didn’t go back to school this afternoon.”
Kendra Griffith
“What was your reaction when you saw that you had all the numbers?”
Erlett Lozano
“I didn’t believe, I was excited and so I went to check at the agent where I usually buy and I had to see for myself.”
Kendra Griffith
“You have a hundred thousand dollars, what are your plans now?”
Erlett Lozano
“My main focus is getting my own place. So that is my priority right now, putting aside some for my kids, and taking it one day at a time, noh.”
Kendra Griffith
“You wah have a really good Christmas this year?”
Erlett Lozano
Well yes, my family will have a really good Christmas.”
Kendra Griffith
“How did you come across your numbers?”
Erlett Lozano
“It was a quick pick. I usually just buy one quick pick every week and those were the numbers that played. I have been buying for five years and this was the opportunity I was waiting for. I got it, so I’ll leave it for someone else to win.”
Lozano took home a hundred and two thousand dollars after taxes. The numbers chosen in Wednesday’s draw were 3-19-21-24-30; the free ticket letter is L. Buyers receive two hundred and seventeen dollars for match four, while match three is twelve dollars. The jackpot for Saturday’s draw reverts to fifty thousand dollars.
