“My God, this is cash money,” said Gamboa, a Checker Cab driver for 13 years.
Gamboa immediately notified his dispatcher and drove the money to Yellow Checker Star Transportation’s main office after dropping off the passenger.
It then took some detective work — literally, as Las Vegas police were called in — to discover the rightful owner.
During the morning, Gamboa remembered driving a passenger from The Cosmopolitan to the Palms Place tower, receiving a $5 tip. He then headed to the Bellagio to get into the cab line, not noticing the paper bag in the back seat until the doorman pointed it out around 11:45 a.m.
One person showed up at Yellow Checker Star to claim the money without identification and was not the name to whom The Cosmopolitan, just south of the Bellagio, recently had recorded a $300,000 payout.
Not wanting to hand over the money under murky circumstances, cab company officials called police for help.
Casino officials and police eventually linked the money to a prominent poker player they wouldn’t publicly identify.
Even after solving the mystery, the people involved were amazed by the find.
“Even though I am a poor guy, I don’t need money that doesn’t belong to me,” said Gamboa, a 27-year resident of Las Vegas.
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