UPDATE: December 27, 2013: for it: cab driver Gerardo Gamboa had a little merrier Christmas 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 employer Yellow Star cab and a $250 dining certificate although they usually say that no good deed goes unpunished, for once, someone who did the right thing has actually gotten rewarded.

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

Whenever you’re a Las vegas, nevada cab driver, you won’t ever know who or what will end up in your taxi on any provided time. So driver that is veteran Gamboa was unfazed when a Bellagio hotel doorman, opening the cab’s rear home to help a new customer in, noticed a brown paper bag left in the chair by the cab’s previous occupant, evidently. He didn’t also bother to check inside as soon as the doorman put it on his passenger seat until he got to a light and fascination got the very best of him. Guessing that chocolates lay in hold off, a peek was taken by him inside, with illicit thoughts in mind should his conjecture be correct.

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

Sweet, But Not Candy

But there have been no chocolates inside when Gamboa exposed that small brown bag; instead, there had been cash. And by cash, we mean…cash. All nicely bundled to be exact: $300,000 worth in $100 bills. Which probably weighs a bit more than chocolates, Mr. Gamboa; and maybe after 13 years in town, a brown paper case 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 again, phone us cynical, but we might have assumed this kind of large amount of cash in an innocuous brown paper bag ended up being destined for payoff of some dubious merchandise. But Mr. Gamboa is apparently more trusting than we are, and after turning the money over to Yellow Checker celebrity, cops had been called in and somehow, the owner ended up being 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 location being a Palms Place tower; he additionally remembered that this passenger had left him a $5 tip for the ride. Right after, he headed to the Bellagio cab line, where in actuality the resort’s doorman had noticed the backseat cash stash case just a few minutes before noon.

Incorporating drama towards the situation, somebody mysteriously arrived at the Yellow Star offices to claim the bag, but had no ID, nor had been he the individual to who Cosmopolitan had apparently tracked a outgoing repayment associated with exact $300,000. Naturally, this is when Metro ended up being called in to assist and sort all of it out.

In the long run, it absolutely was determined that what could have appeared as if drug money was actually the property of a poker that is famous who Metro refused to publicly determine. Yes, we’re dying of fascination too.

‘ This is the amount that is largest we are finding in my own 32 years in ecommerce,’ said Yellow Checker Star chief running 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 says he never considered stealing any of the cash that is bagged.

‘Even I don’t need money that doesn’t belong to me,’ said Gamboa, who’s been a Sin City resident for 27 years though I am a poor guy. ‘Tomorrow, I go back to function.’

Develop the poker that is unnamed will release just a little bankroll and show some appreciation to at least one of nevada’ truthful citizens.

A driver for another cab company also returned $222,000 that was left in his cab by a passenger although this find was the largest, last year.