UPDATE: December 27, 2013: Although they generally say that no good deed goes unpunished, for as soon as, somebody whom did the best thing has actually gotten rewarded for it: cab driver Gerardo Gamboa had a little merrier Christmas time after receiving a $10,000 reward from the mystery poker player to whom the $300,000 in cash belonged, as well as another $1,000 from his boss Yellow Star cab and a $250 dining certificate.

Apparently like ransom cash the money, still bundled in those $5,000 wads, had been fallen off at undisclosed location by Mystery Poker Person for Gamboa’s good deed.

Whenever you are a Las vegas, nevada cab driver, you never know who or what can become in your taxi on any offered time. So driver that is veteran Gamboa was unfazed when a Bellagio resort doorman, opening the cab’s rear home to assist a new customer in, noticed a brown paper bag left on the chair by the cab’s previous occupant, evidently. He didn’t also bother to look inside as soon as the doorman put it on his passenger chair until he got to a curiosity and light got the very best of him. Guessing that chocolates lay in delay, he took a peek inside, with illicit ideas in mind should his conjecture be correct.

‘What kind of chocolates are they?’ Gamboa pondered. ‘Are they ones that are good I could buy some for my wife as a present?’

Sweet, Not Candy

But there were no chocolates inside when Gamboa launched that little bag that is brown instead, there was cash. And by cash, we mean…cash. To be exact: $300,000 worth in $100 bills, all well bundled. Which probably weighs a bit more than chocolates, Mr. Gamboa; and possibly after 13 years in city, a brown paper bag should set some alarms off, but hey, maybe that’s just us.

After notifying his dispatcher of the cache, Gamboa took it to his employer’s Yellow Checker Star Transportation head office but not we assume was unaware of the celebrity package riding shotgun in the passenger seat up front before he dropped off his current passenger, who.

Now once again, phone us cynical, but we might have assumed this type of large sum of money in an innocuous brown paper bag had been destined for payoff of some dubious merchandise. But Mr. Gamboa is apparently more trusting than we are, and after turning the money up to Yellow Checker celebrity, cops had been called in and somehow, the dog owner had been discovered, via some good ol’ fashioned gumshoe techniques.

Retracking His Route

This indicates Gamboa recalled dropping off a passenger he had acquired at Cosmopolitan, utilizing the final destination being a Palms Place tower; he additionally remembered that this passenger had left him a $5 tip for the ride. Soon after, he headed towards the Bellagio cab line, where in fact the hotel’s doorman had noticed the backseat cash stash bag merely a few minutes before noon.

Adding drama to your situation, somebody mysteriously arrived at the Yellow Star offices to claim the bag, but had no ID, nor had been he anyone to who Cosmopolitan had apparently tracked a outbound repayment regarding the precise $300,000. Naturally, this is when Metro was called in to assist and sort all of it out.

In the long run, it had been determined that what could have appeared as if drug money was actually the house of a poker that is famous who Metro refused to publicly recognize. Yes, we are dying of fascination too.

‘ This may be the largest amount we are finding in my 32 years in this business,’ said Yellow Checker Star chief operating officer Bill Shranko. ‘Recently, we found $9,000, but that is no longer a big deal.’

Although Gamboa had apparently considered scuba diving into some chocolate, he claims he never considered stealing any of the bagged cash.

‘Even though i will be a poor guy I don’t need money that doesn’t belong to me personally,’ said Gamboa, who’s been a Sin City resident for 27 years. ‘Tomorrow, I return back to work.’

We hope the poker that is unnamed will forget about a little bankroll and show some appreciation to at least one of nevada’ honest citizens.

Even though this find was the biggest, this past year, a motorist for another cab company also returned $222,000 that was kept in his cab with a passenger.