Honest guy returns $10,000 that armored truck dropped
Runnemede NJ November 5 2018
Rob Phy was driving home on a rainy Monday night last month when he saw something weird in the street.
The 48-year-old Runnemede resident stopped in the rain, got out and kicked a bag, expecting trash to greet him.
What he saw instead was wads of cash, with more scattered around the street.
“I’m like, ‘uh oh, this isn’t supposed to be here,'” Phy said. “We have such a small town nothing really happens around here.”
So he took a picture, then moved it aside and called police. Officers arrived and took the money.
“Everything goes through your mind, but you know what, you gotta do the right thing,” he said. “When you do something like that, you always want your kids to know, if you’re ever out in that situation, do the right thing.”
Runnemede Police Chief Paul Dailey confirmed the incident took place the evening of Oct. 15 at the intersection of Central and 9th avenues.
The money had fallen off a GardaWorld truck as it made the turn onto 9th Avenue. Officers took the cash, estimated to be more than $10,000, down to the GardaWorld branch on 9th Avenue.
An open and shut case, solved in one night.
“There’s a lot of good people still in the world today,” Dailey said. “This guy knew, he saw it, he did the right thing. He did the honest thing.”
An employee at GardaWorld in Runnemede declined to comment for this story. GardaWorld media relations representatives could not be reached Thursday.
NJ.com
