Winning Connecticut Powerball Ticket Locations Announced

Connecticut Lottery officials have announced the locations of the retailers who sold winning Powerball tickets for Saturday’s drawing.

The historic jackpot exceeded $900 million in the Jan. 9 drawing; no one won, which means today’s big prize will be $1.5 billion. The estimated cash value is a shade under $1 billion at $930 million before taxes.

Although there was no top prize winning Powerball ticket sold on Saturday, there are five Connecticut Lottery ticketholders who have won between $50,000 and $500,000 in the third-prize winning tickets that matched four white balls and the Powerball for the drawing, according to lottery officials.

The winning numbers for the Saturday, Jan. 9, drawing were: 16, 19, 32, 34, and 57. The Red Power Ball number was 13. The Multiplier number was 03.

Connecticut’s winners were:

• Frederick Krauss of Windsor won $500,000 with a ticket he bought at Lara Market LLC in Windsor
• Keith Camyre of Westfield, MA, won $500,000 with a ticket he also bought at Lara Market LLC
• Menuka Lamsal Ghimire of West Hartford won $150,000 with a ticket he bought at Advanced Gas Co Inc in Bloomfield
• Lois Hernandez of Norwich won $50,000 with a ticket she bought at Shoprite Of Norwich
• Patrick Quatrone of Norwalk won $50,000 with a ticket he bought at East Avenue Citgo Inc in Norwalk

Additionally, there are two $1 million winning Powerball tickets bought in Fairfield County that have so far gone unclaimed (one from the Dec. 5 drawing, the other from Jan. 9). And there also is an outstanding $2 million prize from a ticket bought in Hartford County on Jan. 9. Those winners have not yet come forward, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Lottery told Patch.

Turning back to tonight’s Powerball drawing, the spokesperson said that people are buying more than 3,100 tickets per minute as of about 10:45 a.m., an amount she expects will spike well above that number as the day progresses.

“People love to wait to the last minute to buy tickets, so we’re expecting to see that number escalate, especially at lunchtime and after 5 p.m.,” she said.

Patch Editor Tom Davis contributed to this report.