Homeless man reunited with $10K he left on a bus bench

The man, identified as Joe, inherited $12,000 from a deceased relative. He withdrew around $10,000 on June 1. Joe mistakenly left two cash-filled envelopes on a bus bench, Detective Danny Mursell told the Sun Sentinel.

“He knew it was left there but he figured by the time he thought about going back to get it, it would be gone,” Mursell told the Sun Sentinel.

Luckily a few days later on June 4, a man named John Harbett saw one of the envelopes at the bus stop that contained $3,900. He took the envelope home for safe-keeping, Mursell said.

Around 6:30 p.m. on the same day, Deputy Ben Koos spotted an  envelope that had $5,600 in it, which he took back to the sheriff's station.

Coincidentally, Harbett turned in the envelope he found to the substation a few hours later.

“We obviously put two and two together and everything was in one location for a total of $9,500,” Harbett said to the Sun-Sentinel.

A receipt from a Coral Ridge Mall clothing store was in a shopping bag that was also left at the bus stop and the authorities were able to get a surveillance picture of Joe from store employees, according to Mursell.

Koos then showed the picture to people in the area. Joe was spotted Tuesday afternoon and investigators gave him back his cash soon after.

“It kind of renews your faith,” Mursell said to the Sun-Sentinel.

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