A Baltimore street sweeper is celebrating a $100,000 payday after an unplanned stop on the way home from an overtime shift turned into a lottery win. The man, identified only by his initials A.R., wrapped up a long day of work on April 19 before pulling into a Wawa on Pulaski Highway in Rosedale for a quick bite. As highlighted by the Daily Dot, that routine stop ended with one of the bigger scratch-off wins the state has seen in recent weeks.
After picking up a sandwich, A.R. bought two scratch-off tickets on impulse. One of them, a 50X The Cash game, turned out to be a $100,000 top-prize winner. He told Maryland Lottery officials it had been a rough year, and he claimed his prize at Lottery headquarters on April 24, keeping the details of his plans quiet in the immediate aftermath.
A.R. said he intends to use the money to pay off his bills and buy a new vehicle. The win was confirmed by Fox Baltimore, which also reported on other major prizes claimed during the same period.
That Wawa on Pulaski Highway has now produced multiple big winners
The Rosedale location appears to be a recurring site for large scratch-off wins. A Middle River resident known as “Wawa Winner” stopped at that same store in February 2026 and walked away with a $50,000 prize from a 200X The Cash ticket. The back-to-back wins at a single convenience store location are an unusual pattern even by lottery standards.
The 50X The Cash game has been active across the state. During the week of April 20 to 26 alone, three separate $100,000 winning tickets from that game were sold in Maryland. Besides the Rosedale Wawa ticket, the other two were purchased at a Shell on Lake View Drive in Mount Airy and a Giant store on Crain Highway in Waldorf.
The Maryland Lottery and Gaming agency paid out more than $30.1 million in prizes during that same week, covering 31 tickets worth $10,000 or more. The largest single prize that week was a $500,000 scratch-off ticket sold in Hagerstown. A $168,860 FAST PLAY High Roller Blackjack progressive jackpot ticket sold in Silver Spring on April 22 remained unclaimed as of April 27.
Other winners that week included multiple $25,000 Pick 5 tickets sold at locations across Baltimore, on Liberty Road, Saint Paul Street, and Sherwood Road, amid a steady stream of other Maryland news stories drawing attention to the region. The week’s prize activity stretched across Pick 5 games and Racetrax prizes statewide, with the Hagerstown $500,000 winner standing as the headline figure. A.R.’s $100,000, while not the week’s largest, came with the kind of backstory that set it apart from the rest, a tired worker who wasn’t looking for anything more than a meal before heading home.
Published: Apr 28, 2026 08:45 pm