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Article: Undercover officer leaves $80,000 trail
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1991
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DES PLAINES, Ill. -- An undercover officer heading for a drug
bust lost $80,000 in cash to be used to buy drugs when he
inadvertently left the money on top of his car and drove away, police
say.
Finders will not be keepers, police said in this suburb northwest
of Chicago.
Police Chief Kenneth Randolph said Monday that keeping the lost
cash would be a crime and that violators would be prosecuted.
"If someone is sitting in their home and afraid to turn the money
in, we want our money back," Randolph said.
The officer lost the money on March 2 while he was on his way to
make an undercover drug purchase in Chicago. The money, ...