North Vancouver RCMP have a brown envelope full of cash, and it isn’t from someone trying to get out of criminal charge.
Mounties are looking to return a “sizable sum” of bills to their rightful owner after good Samaritan found the envelope in front of the North Vancouver City Library on March 6 and turned it over to the RCMP detachment a block away.
“We’re grateful that this money was turned in and eager to return it to the person that lost it,” said Const. Mansoor Sahak, spokesperson for the North Vancouver RCMP. “We’ll need the owner to tell us the amount of money that was in the envelope, the denominations, the currencies, and a reasonable explanation of when, where and how they lost it.”
Whenever the RCMP issues a release attempting to find the rightful owner of a large amount of money, it tends to draw dozens of calls from people simply trying their luck at guessing the amount. Sahak said they’re hoping to avoid that this time.
“It goes without saying, but please do not make false claims in hopes of making a quick buck. That would be unkind. It would also be fraud, which is a crime,” he said.
In 2017, the RCMP went public about a large quantity of bills tucked into a library book borrowed by a library patron. And in November 2022, the police went public about a stack of cash left behind at Maplewood Farm.
