{"id":235247,"date":"2026-04-17T05:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:15:15","slug":"miami-area-walmart-shopper-wins-25-million-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235247\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami area Walmart shopper wins $25 million lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how much he spent on groceries, the $50 a Miami-Dade man dropped on a Florida Lottery scratch-off turned out to be the best money spent at a West Miami-Dade Walmart Neighborhood Market.<\/p>\n<p>That $50 bought Lincoln Diaz a Gold Rush Multiplier game ticket, and that ticket won Diaz one of the two $25 million prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Lottery announced Wednesday that Diaz took the option of a lump-sum payment, giving him $15,960,000.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/lottery\/article315430646.html\">READ MORE: A South Florida store sold Wednesday\u2019s only big money lottery draw winner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Walmart supermarket is at 14720 SW 26th St.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lincoln Diaz - $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER - $25M - Phot_fitted.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Lincoln Diaz - $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER - $25M - Phot_fitted.jpeg\" alt=\"Miami\u2019s Lincoln Diaz, left, holds up the $25 million prize sign with his guest, Alain Diaz, after winning one of the two big prizes in the $25 Million Gold Rush Multiplier scratch off game.\"\/>                                                                                    Miami\u2019s Lincoln Diaz, left, holds up the $25 million prize sign with his guest, Alain Diaz, after winning one of the two big prizes in the $25 Million Gold Rush Multiplier scratch off game.                                                                                                                                                                        The Florida Lottery                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published April 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776402915_366_695 Miami Herald sig 072115 Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David J. Neal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David J. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter how much he spent on groceries, the $50 a Miami-Dade man dropped on a Florida Lottery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-235247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235247","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=235247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}