Timothy P. Haggerty of Lighthouse Point turned in a $2 million ticket today, the Florida Lottery announced.

The winning Mega Money Quick Pick ticket was purchased at 7-Eleven, located at 2391 N. Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach.

Haggerty bought the ticket on Saturday and staked his claim in Tallahassee Tuesday.

Haggerty chose the one-time, lump-sum payment option of 1,385,810. The retailer received $7,000.

Our clips show that 23 years ago, a 34-year-old Timothy Haggerty (I'm making a phone call to see if they are one and the same, but...) got into a five-year litigation with the city over a code violation involving his mail box, and it was fodder for a handful of stories.

The city claimed Haggerty`s mailbox, a construction of auto parts and scrap metal, was a traffic and safety hazard, and ordered him to remove it. He refused, claiming he had a right to express himself by building any type of mailbox he wanted. But our story archives say that he took the box down while the matter was going through the legal process.

He also ran for Pompano Beach city commission in 1986, and while he didn't the paper's endorsement he was described as "articulate."