Garden Grove : Lotto Winner Hasn’t Made Self Known

Somewhere in Garden Grove, or thereabouts, a lucky person holds a Lotto ticket worth $6.7 million.

But as of 5:30 p.m. Monday--closing hours for the California Lottery offices in Sacramento--no one had come forward to claim his or her winnings from Saturday night’s Lotto drawing. Two tickets, one sold in Garden Grove and one in Lancaster, had all six numbers drawn Saturday night: 5, 12, 16, 17, 26 and 29.

Each winner will receive $6,760,000, according to John Schade, spokesman for the lottery.

“We can confirm the store that sold the ticket, but we don’t have the name of the winner in Garden Grove,” Schade said, adding that the store that sold the winning ticket was Jiffy Stop Market, 5871 Lampson Ave.

The manager of Jiffy Stop Market on Monday afternoon said no one at the store has any idea who bought the winning ticket. “I’m very anxious to find out,” said the manager, who declined to give her name. She added that the store owners said they “did not want any publicity” but were “ecstatic, of course” about being a winning ticket seller.

Each store that sold a winning ticket for Saturday’s drawing will get 1/2 of 1% of the jackpot, or $33,800, lottery officials said. “That’s about $23,000 after taxes,” the Jiffy Stop Market manager said. “It helps!”