LAKEVILLE — After six months, Paul Little finally cashed in his lost $3 million winning lottery ticket — a little slip of paper which became the focus of an investigation into alleged lottery larceny by an employee at the store where he purchased it.
On June 30, Little claimed his winnings at Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters in Dorchester. He won his Mega Millions prize by matching the first five numbers while playing the Megaplier option. The winning numbers on his lucky Quic Pic ticket were 02-12-18-24-39.
“I’m pretty excited today because it’s real, with the check in hand,” Little said at the lottery headquarters Friday.
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On Jan. 17, Little purchased the lottery ticket from the former Savas Liquors in Lakeville, now called Lakeville Market & Liquors. But when he exited the store, he left the ticket sitting in the dispensing machine.
Roughly 45 minutes after Little left the store without his winning lottery ticket, a second customer bought five lottery tickets from the same clerk, Carly Nunes, 23, of Lakeville, according to the Plymouth County district attorney's office. The customer noticed there were two extra tickets in the terminal.
"Nunes took the tickets and said they must have belonged to 'him,' meaning the victim," the DA's office said.
Later that night, Little's ticket numbers were announced as the winners....
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