Forest Hills man hits jackpot

Want to know what $5 can get you? One Forest Hills resident recently found out. Pablo Mogollon picked up five Lottery tickets last month and won a share of an $8 million pot.
“I love Lotto,” said 54-year-old Mogollon, according to Lotto officials, “I started playing back in nursing school for the fun of it and have been playing the same lucky numbers ever since.”
Mogollon, who works as a registered nurse at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, opted to receive a lump sum - $2.19 million, or about $1.4 million after taxes - at an event on Tuesday, February 5 about two weeks after he bought the winning ticket.
On January 27, Mogollon had selected a mix of randomly-generated Quick Pick numbers and his own set of lucky digits at BHP News on 82nd Street in Jackson Heights. Three days later his numbers were drawn.
“There is no special meaning to the numbers I chose,” he said in a statement. “They’re just my numbers - or so I thought,” he said, referring to fellow-winner Oleg Soloviev. When asked what he plans to do with his new wealth, Mogollon told Lottery officials of a plan he already had in the works to return to his native Peru for a month-long vacation with family and friends. He also said in published reports that he hoped to buy a house and invest.