A man and a woman stopping at a Texas ATM noticed a bag lying atop the machine.
Every inch of the bag was stuffed with money, yet the anonymous Samaritan immediately called the Lewisville Police Department.
Information on one of the bags indicated that it might have come from the next door Chick-fil-A. He took it over to ask the supervisor about it, but was told the cash and a smaller bag containing 19 checks, were not theirs.
By then, an officer had arrived on scene, and the man, who identified himself only as a Lewisville barber, readily handed it over. Investigators eventually determined that the cash and checks belonged to Bank of America, and that a technician with Brinks had been instructed to bring the cash with them after repairing the ATM.
Inside the money bag was a receipt showing how much the anonymous man had readily relinquished: $128,514.
At the station, Lewisville Police Chief Brook Rollins called for help, as protocol in such circumstances is to double count the money then run it through an electric currency counter. After that was done, they had found exactly $128,514. Not a dollar was missing.
“I’ve had cases where good Samaritans have turned in property that they found, wallets, IDs, things like that,” Lewisville Police Detective Gina Miller told CBS Texas. “But in the case of $128,000, I’ve never had somebody turn in that kind of money before.”
“The bag was just sitting there,” Miller said. “There was no indication of a crime occurring. It looked like it was just left there by accident.”
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It seems as though the Brinks technician simply left the bag atop the ATM—like so many coffee cups on a car roof.
Bank of America has since recovered the money and checks.
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The Lewisville PD say they want to honor the Good Samaritan, who agreed to be thusly received so long as the ceremony was private. Miller said that many people would have the instinct to sneak off with such a large sum of money, but that “Finders keepers losers weepers” is not a legal defense, should they be caught doing so.
Police Chief Rollins said, by contrast, the man knew it was the right thing to do, and did it without hesitation.
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