A Long Island dockworker raked in a $26.5 million Lotto jackpot — and promptly quit his job.
Fidencio Argueta, 60, from Brentwood, said the decision to play Quick-Pick numbers in the state’s six-digit lottery on April 10 just came to him on a whim.
“I felt like I should play,” he explained at a press conference yesterday.
After taxes, Argueta yesterday got a lump sum check for $12,335,306.
Argueta, who purchased the ticket at a Brentwood pharmacy, also said he intended to “pay off my debts and change my car’’ with his winnings, but that was as far as he had planned ahead.
He said the jackpot will change his life “in a big way.’’ Some of the winnings will go to his kidss — though he refused to say how many kids he had.
He was accompanied to the press conference by two lawyers and wore dark sunglassess.
Meanwhile, another Long Islander won $5 million with a Maximum Millions scratch-off ticket.
“I couldn’t believe it!’’ said Leonarda Diaz, 47, of Franklin Square, who discovered she’d won while stopped at a traffic light.
“I look at the light, I look at the ticket — I started trembling. I was shaking,’’ said Diaz, the mother of four and grandmother of four.
She said she’ll pay off the mortgage on her father’s home and buy herself a dream house.