UPDATE: December 27, 2013: for it: cab driver Gerardo Gamboa had a little merrier Christmas after receiving a $10,000 reward from the mystery poker player to whom the $300,000 in cash belonged, as well as another $1,000 from his employer Yellow Star cab and a $250 dining certificate although they usually say that no good deed goes unpunished, for once, someone who did the right thing has actually gotten rewarded.

Apparently like ransom money the money, still bundled in those $5,000 wads, was dropped 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 each time 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, evidently. He didn’t also 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, he took a peek in, with illicit thoughts in mind should his conjecture be correct.

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

Sweet, But Not Candy

But there were no chocolates inside when Gamboa opened that little brown bag; instead, there had been cash. And by cash, we mean…cash. To be exact: $300,000 worth in $100 bills, all well bundled. Which probably weighs much more than chocolates, Mr. Gamboa; and maybe after 13 years in city, a brown paper case should set down some alarms, 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 headquarters 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 once again, call us cynical, but we might have assumed this type of large sum of money in an innocuous brown paper bag had been destined for payoff of some dubious product. But Mr. Gamboa is evidently more trusting than we are, and after turning the money over to Yellow Checker celebrity, cops had been called in and somehow, the dog owner had been discovered, via some good ol’ fashioned gumshoe techniques.

Retracking His Route

It appears Gamboa recalled dropping off a passenger he had found at Cosmopolitan, with all the final location being a Palms Place tower; he additionally remembered that this passenger had left him a $5 tip for the ride. Right after, he headed to the Bellagio cab line, where in actuality the hotel’s doorman had noticed the cash that is backseat case merely a few mins before noon.

Incorporating drama to the situation, someone mysteriously arrived 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 payment that is outgoing of exact $300,000. Naturally, it was when Metro was called in to assist and sort it all out.

In the end, it was determined that what could have appeared to be drug money was actually the house of a poker that is famous who Metro refused to publicly determine. Yes, we are dying of interest too.

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

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

‘Even though I am a bad guy I don’t need money that doesn’t belong to me,’ said Gamboa, that is been a Sin City resident for 27 years. ‘Tomorrow, I return to operate.’

Develop the unnamed poker celeb will let go of a little bankroll and show some appreciation to one of Las vegas, nevada’ truthful citizens.

Although this find was the largest, last year, a driver for the next cab company additionally returned $222,000 that was left in his cab by a passenger.