$300,000 in cash spilled out of the back this Brinks truck in Illinois — then a swarm of residents swooped in to snag the bills. But there was a serious legal cost to the ‘found’ money

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The streets of Oak Park, Illinois, erupted in chaos when $300,000 in cash spilled from a Brinks armoured truck into the street.

“People were running down the streets with money bags,” Nicole Phillips-Edwards, an Oak Park resident, told CBS News Chicago…