Idaho firefighter wins $100,000 in Powerball

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — An Idaho firefighter won $100,000 in Monday night's Powerball.

Casey Winter, a local fireman, and his longtime girlfriend Josie Nelson were scanning their tickets Thursday night when they hit an unexpected snag.

“I scanned it with my Idaho Lottery app on my phone,” Nelson said. “It said the prize amount was too much to show me and that I needed to call the Lottery office. I started checking the website to check the numbers, to make sure I had the right date, but I didn’t believe it.”

Winter and Nelson took the ticket to a local store to scan it there.

“The machine made the big winner sound and the clerk told us we needed to take it to the Lottery,” Winter said. “So, we pushed back our dinner reservations and hurried down to the Lottery Offices before they closed.”

Since Winter's ticket matched four of the five Powerball numbers, he won $100,000 from it. The couple claimed their winnings right before the lottery offices closed.

“I know I missed the jackpot by one number, but I’m not complaining,” Winter said.

Winter and Nelson are planning on using the money to put a down payment on a new house.

"We were both born and raised here," Nelson said. "With the housing market being what it is, winning Powerball is going to help two native Idahoans afford to stay in Idaho!”

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