A bag holding six figures in cash sat unattended on top of a Bank of America ATM in Lewisville. A Texas barber found it, took nothing for himself and made sure all $128,514 reached police, according to CBS. Not a dollar was missing when officers went through the cash.
The 37-year-old had gone to the machine on West Main Street with a 42-year-old woman to withdraw money when the pair spotted two bags, per a police report. One held the cash, and a smaller one contained 19 checks. Information on one of the bags pointed to Chick-fil-A, so the Texas barber drove the money to a nearby location of the chain.
A manager there told him the bags did not belong to the restaurant. He then called 911 with Chick-fil-A staff standing beside him, and officers arrived to secure the money. The finder has asked not to be identified, and he told the outlet he could not speak about what happened that morning at the ATM.
Police say the Texas barber never hesitated to give the money back
The head of the Lewisville Police Department praised how quickly the finder acted. “This person didn’t blink. They took it directly to where they thought it was supposed to be,” Chief Brook Rollins said. He also said that finding that amount of money is rare, and finding it with no connection to criminal activity is unusual.
Inside the cash bag was a bank receipt listing exactly $128,514, which is the amount police counted. An officer went through the money twice by hand and then verified the total with a digital currency counter. The cash was sealed and secured in the department’s property room afterward, and investigators began working out who owned it…