The third $50,000 Early Bird prize in the Maryland Lottery Holiday Raffle was claimed after the Dec. 22 drawing, with the winning ticket sold at Foods In, located in the 12000 block of Mattawoman Drive in Waldorf, according to Lottery officials.
The winner, a retired government worker using the alias “Foods In Winner,” said he was shopping at the Charles County store when the buzz started. A customer told him a $50,000 Holiday Raffle ticket had been sold there and pulled up the winning number — 166251 — on his phone.
“I looked at the number on his phone, and it looked very familiar to me,” the Waldorf resident said…