Belford Deli Sells $253,446 Winning Lottery Ticket

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — Yup, time to *really* check your pockets if you live in the Belford area and play the lottery.

That's because a tiny, little convenience store on Main Street in Belford, the One Stop Food Store, sold a lottery ticket this week that won the $253,446 Jersey Cash 5 Jackpot, the New Jersey state lottery announced Wednesday morning. The ticket matched another ticket sold in Atlantic County, so the winners will split the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot, each taking home $126,726, before taxes.

So a big winner might be right in the Belford/Middletown area. The winner has not yet come forward.

The ticket matched the numbers in the drawing Tuesday night, June 11. The winning numbers are: 01, 11, 12, 14 and 31 and the XTRA number was: 02. According to the state lottery, the tickets were sold at the following locations:

• Atlantic County: Cedar Food Mart, 500 South Main St., Pleasantville; and
• Monmouth County: One Stop Food Store, 804 Main St., Belford

Each store will be given $2,000 from the state lottery for selling the winning tickets.