An 18 year old waitress employed at a Juan Dolio small hotel is the winner of the 17 October RD$20 million lotto prize. It wasn’t until last week that she found out she had won. She resides in the rural community of La Malena, in Boca Chica. Because power service has still not been restored in this area, she did not know she had won the prize. The person who sold her the ticket, Carlos Pascual Caró Gómez (he goes home to home selling the tickets in the rural areas of the southeast), sought her out when the Lotto company detected where the ticket had been sold. Carlos Pascual Caro Gómez was alerted that one of the 18 people in the rural area had purchased the ticket. The winner, Lucrecia Guzmán Pérez, made RD$2,000 a month as a waitress at the Hotel Europa in Juan Dolio, one of the areas most affected by the Hurricane. She told Hoy newspaper that she would buy a jeep for her father, a house for her mother and she would give him something to Caró Gómez, who sold her the ticket. The rest she would put in the bank. She went to the Lotto company, Leidsa to claim her millions with her parents Daniel Guzman and Deyanira Pérez, her brother Tulio Pérez, a mechanic, and boyfriend, José Hidalgo. Her father is a construction overseer, and her mother works as a housekeeper. Her boyfriend is a cook at the same hotel where she worked as waitress. He had already given his girl friend RD$3,500 so she could look for a place for them to live together.
