$206.9 Million Powerball Winner Jackpot Won in New Mexico! Winner Has Yet to Come Forward

Update 10-15-08

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks.

But nine residents brought different attention to the town Friday when they claimed a Powerball jackpot worth more than $200 million.

Holly Baldwin bought the tickets at a gas station two hours before the Sept. 27 drawing. Her group decided to take a lump payment of more than $100 million.

Fellow winner Ron Miller says they will invest most of the money and set up a charity trust.

The winning numbers were 13, 24, 29, 40 and 52, with 29 as the Powerball number. The $206.9 million jackpot is New Mexico's largest lottery sum ever and the 15th-largest jackpot in Powerball history.

Roswell is best known as the site of a rumored UFO crash in the '40s

By The Associated Press

Article Launched: 09/29/2008 08:09:40 AM MDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Time to double-check those receipts if you recently bought a Powerball ticket in New Mexico.

New Mexico Lottery officials waited Sunday to see if anyone would come forward to present the $206.9 million winning ticket. One of the tickets sold for Saturday's drawing matched all six numbers: 13-24-29-40-52

This is the fifth multimillion jackpot sold in New Mexico since the state joined the multistate Powerball network in October 1996.

A group of 14 Sandia National Laboratories employees shared $131 million in November 2000, Isabell Delgado of Las Cruces claimed $32 million in February 2002, Kirtland Air Force Base airman John San Cartier collected $93.4 million in August 2005 and Felipe Pena of Los Ojos won $62.8 million in May 2007.