RALEIGH – Asheville resident Nicholas Dalleva Jr. claimed a Carolina Cash 5 ticket worth $332,556 on Friday afternoon, the largest Cash 5 win in Buncombe County history. His ticket matched all five numbers in the Nov. 3 drawing.
He received a check for $226,138 after state and federal taxes were withheld. The ticket was purchased at the Wilco on Hendersonville Road in Asheville. Odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are one in 575,757.
Through June 30 of last year, Buncombe County players won more than $126 million in lottery prizes. During the same time frame, Buncombe County education programs received more than $31.7 million in lottery funds. By law, those funds pay for teachers’ salaries in grades K-3, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds.
To date, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised more than $2.2 billion for these initiatives statewide.