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GUADALUPITA WOMAN WINS $200,000 NEW MEXICO LOTTERY PRIZE
November 16, 2011
A bad wind blew good fortune to a Guadalupita woman.
Rebecca Leyba won $200,000 playing the New Mexico Lottery’s “Diamond Avalanche” Scratcher game. She ended up with the winning ticket after she and her husband drove 50 miles to Las Vegas to replace windows broken in a windstorm. On their way home Monday, they stopped for gas and snacks.
“I gave her $20 and told her to get whatever she wanted,” Guadalupe Leyba recalled for lottery officials in Albuquerque Tuesday. “I was hoping she would bring me an ice cream sandwich.”
Instead, his wife returned with a $20 lottery ticket. Two miles outside Las Vegas, she revealed the six-figure prize.
“It was unbelievable,” Rebecca Leyba said. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
The couple turned around and went back to Las Vegas to show the ticket to their children. It turned into a prank.
“We asked, ‘Do you want to see a $1,000 winner?’” Rebecca Leyba said. “Their jaws dropped.” The winner said she plans to use the $200,000 prize to pay bills, help her children and buy an ice cream sandwich for her husband.
The lucky ticket was purchased at Laguna Vista Quik Stop located at Mora Route Highway 518 in Las Vegas. The store has sold eight other large prize-winning lottery tickets paying between $1,000 and $25,000.
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