March 8 (UPI) — A North Carolina man scored a $100,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket after previously collecting a $200,000 jackpot in 2021.
Alexandro Acevedo of Monroe told North Carolina Education Lottery officials that he bought his $30 Black Titanium ticket from the Food Lion on North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Monroe and was stunned to scratch off the $100,000 prize.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Acevedo recalled. “I was like, ‘No way.’ It feels great.”
He said his disbelief was compounded by the fact that he previously had won $200,000 from a Bigger $pin scratch-off ticket in September 2021.
“After I won, I told my mother-in-law, ‘Guess what? I did it again,'” Acevedo said.
Acevedo, who spent some of his first round of winnings on a trip to Disney World with his daughters, said another vacation might be in his family’s future.
“That last trip was fun,” he said. “Maybe we’ll do it again.”