{"id":231370,"date":"2026-04-14T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:37:07","slug":"trip-to-walmart-turns-into-25m-lottery-win-for-south-florida-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231370\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Walmart turns into $25M lottery win for South Florida man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/walmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walmart <\/a>turned into a $25 million lottery win for a Miami man. <\/p>\n<p>The Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lottery <\/a>announced on Tuesday that Lincoln Diaz claimed a $25 million top prize from the $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game. <\/p>\n<p>Diaz bought his winning ticket from the Walmart at 14720 S.W. 26th Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami<\/a>, according to lottery officials. With a 1-in-4.09 chance of winning a prize, the 68-year-old man turned $50 into $25 million. <\/p>\n<p>Diaz chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $15.96 million from the Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee on January 12, according to the news release. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lincoln Diaz and guest pose with an oversized check after claiming a $25 million top prize from the $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. (Florida Lottery){ }\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f0a9850c-dc4a-4c23-b2e8-42b8b8593901-LincolnDiaz25000000GOLDRUSHMULTIPLIER25MPhoto.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Diaz and guest pose with an oversized check after claiming a $25 million top prize from the $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. (Florida Lottery){ }<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/settlement-negotiations-to-begin-in-indian-river-county-sheriffs-lawsuit-against-county-commissioners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian River Co. settles sheriff budget lawsuit: $3.5M boost now, next year capped at $4M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Florida Lottery has generated more than $50 billion to support education and has helped send more than one million students to Florida\u2019s colleges, universities, and technical schools through the<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Bright%20Futures%20Scholarship%20Program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bright Futures Scholarship Program<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A trip to Walmart turned into a $25 million lottery win for a Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-231370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}