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

Evidently 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.

When you’re a nevada cab driver, you won’t ever know who or what will end up in your taxi on any provided day. 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 regarding the chair by the cab’s previous occupant, apparently. He didn’t also bother to look inside as soon as the doorman use it his passenger chair until he got to a light and fascination got the very best of him. Guessing that chocolates lay in hold off, he took a peek 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, Not Candy

But there were no chocolates inside when Gamboa started that little 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 much more than chocolates, Mr. Gamboa; and perhaps 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, call us cynical, but we might have assumed this type of large sum of cash in a innocuous brown paper bag was destined for payoff of some dubious product. But Mr. Gamboa is apparently more trusting than we are, and after turning the cash over to Yellow Checker Star, cops had been called in and somehow, the owner had been discovered, via some good ol’ fashioned gumshoe techniques.

Retracking His Route

It appears Gamboa recalled dropping off a passenger he had picked up at Cosmopolitan, because of the destination that is final a Palms Place tower; he additionally remembered that this passenger had left him a $5 tip for the ride. Soon after, he headed to your Bellagio cab line, in which the resort’s doorman had noticed the cash that is backseat bag only a few mins before noon.

Adding drama to the situation, some body 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 outbound payment regarding the precise $300,000. Naturally, it was when Metro had been called in to assist and sort it all out.

In the long run, it was determined that what could have appeared to be drug money was actually the property of a poker that is famous whom Metro refused to publicly identify. Yes, we’re dying of curiosity too.

’ This is the amount that is largest we have discovered in my own 32 years in e-commerce,’ said Yellow Checker Star chief operating officer Bill Shranko. 'Recently, we found $9,000, but that’s no longer a big deal.’

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

’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 return working.’

We hope the unnamed poker celeb will release a little bankroll and show some appreciation to 1 of Las Vegas’ honest citizens.

Even though this find was the biggest, a year ago, a motorist for the next cab company additionally returned $222,000 that was kept in his cab by way of a passenger.