UPDATE: December 27, 2013: Although they generally say that no good deed goes unpunished, for when, some body whom did the right thing has really gotten rewarded for it: cab motorist Gerardo Gamboa had a little merrier xmas after getting a $10,000 reward from the secret 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 cash the cash, still bundled in those $5,000 wads, was fallen off at undisclosed location by Mystery Poker Person for Gamboa’s good deed.

Day when you’re a Las Vegas cab driver, you never know who or what will end up in your taxi on any given. So veteran driver Gerardo Gamboa was unfazed when a Bellagio resort doorman, opening the cab’s rear home to help a new customer in, noticed a brown paper bag left regarding the seat by the cab’s previous occupant, evidently. He didn’t even bother to look inside whenever doorman use it his passenger chair until he got to a curiosity and light got the very best of him. Guessing that chocolates lay in wait, a peek was taken by him in, with illicit thoughts in mind should his conjecture be correct.

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

Sweet, Not Candy

But there were no chocolates inside when Gamboa exposed that little bag that is brown 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 little more than chocolates, Mr. Gamboa; and possibly after 13 years in city, 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 before he dropped off their current passenger, who we assume was unaware associated with the celebrity package riding shotgun in the passenger seat in advance.

Now once more, phone us cynical, but we might have assumed this kind of large amount of cash in a innocuous brown paper bag had been destined for payoff of some merchandise that is dubious. But Mr. Gamboa is evidently more trusting than we are, and after turning the cash up to Yellow Checker Star, cops were 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, with all the final destination being a Palms Place tower; he also remembered that this passenger had left him a $5 tip for the ride. Just after, he headed towards 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 turned up at the Yellow Star offices to claim the bag, but had no ID, nor was he the individual to who Cosmopolitan had apparently tracked a outbound payment regarding the precise $300,000. Naturally, it was when Metro ended up being 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 property of a famous poker player who Metro refused to publicly recognize. Yes, we are dying of curiosity too.

‘ This may be the largest amount 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 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 go back to operate.’

Develop the poker that is unnamed will forget about a little bankroll and show some appreciation to one of Las Vegas’ 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.