Winning a $199,058 Cash 5 jackpot brought Marcos Zeron of Red Springs and his family to tears.

“I was with my family,” he said. “We checked on the phone and saw the numbers. We had to check two or three times! Everybody cried.”

Zeron purchased his winning Quick Pick ticket for Saturday’s drawing from the Food Lion on East 4th Avenue in Red Springs.

“It was a big surprise,” he said. “We were very happy.”

He claimed his prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh and took home $140,834 after required federal and state tax withholdings.

With his prize money, Zeron plans to pay some bills and put the rest into savings.

“Now, we’ve got some extra money for saving,” he said. “And maybe a vacation.”

Carolina Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night. Tuesday’s jackpot is $100,000. The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598.

Cash 5 is one of four lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets through Online Play either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.

Ticket sales from draw games like Cash 5 make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million per year for education.

A $15 million grant, using money raised by the lottery, will help Robeson County to build the Robeson County Career and Technology Center that will support 1,200 students and provide space for training, meetings, classrooms and labs.

For details on other ways Robeson County benefits from lottery funds, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.