College student and aspiring CSI returns $135,000 found outside ATM


Nunez-Romaniz (second from left) receives a plaque for his honesty. Pictured with his are (left to right) his mother Carmen Romaniz, Albuquerque police chief Mike Geier, and his father Jose Nunez-Juarez. Photo: Facebook/Albuquerque Police Department

What would you do if you found a huge sum of money at an ATM machine? Keep it or try to find the owner?

CNN and New York Times recently reported an incident involving nineteen-year-old Jose Nunez-Romaniz who found a bundle of cash on the ground while at an ATM machine close to his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States.

The young man was reported as saying that he stared at the cash for a few seconds at first, shocked and not knowing what to do because he had never seen so much money before.

But the thought of keeping the cash never crossed the mind of the criminal justice student at Central New Mexico Community College. Other thoughts did race through his mind though. He even thought it was a trick or that someone might jump out and try to mug him.

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