Scavenger turns over P165,000 cash

By August 14, 2016Inside News, News

TAYUG—There’s cash in trash.

This was found literally to be true in the case of a woman scavenger who found P165,000 cash in trash bin but turned over her find to the police.

P/Chief Inspector Marcos Anod, acting police chief, told The PUNCH in an interview Tuesday that as narrated by Maria Lozano, 55, she was doing her usual routine of scavenging from trash along the Poblacion area when she saw old pouch inside a trash bag left outside a cooperative office.

Lozano, known here to be a “special person” turned over her find to former Barangay Captain Alberto Mayrong of Barangay A.

As Mayrong and Lozano were counting the cash, police patrollers passed by and the two promptly turned over the cash.

When talk about the find spread in the marketplace reaching employees of the cooperative office, the latter rushed to the police station.

The money was later handed over to Michelle Gasmen, 22, teller of Sacred Heart Saving Cooperative in Zaragosa Street, Barangay Poblacion B.

Anod said that based on stories of employees of the cooperative who went to the police station, their teller left on Friday the money to their manager as she went home early.

But for still unknown reasons, the manager, who was not identified, placed the money inside a trash bag and left.

The following day, the first employee who arrived in the cooperative office dumped the trash bag and that’s when Lozano found it.

“We don’t know why the money was not placed inside a vault,” Anod said.

Anod said he has not yet interviewed the manager who was in Ilocos Sur.

“That’s why there is truth to the saying there’s cash in trash,” Anod said. (Tita Roces)

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