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Homeowner Finds $100K, Fights For Cash
Man, Wife Of Previous Homeowner Want Cash
POSTED: 12:52 pm EDT September 28, 2007
UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT September 28, 2007
SANFORD, Fla. -- What would you do if you found $100,000 in the attic of your house?
Bernard Salcedo, 26, of Sanford, reported the finding to police, who are now holding the money, and he is trying to get it back.
Salcedo was looking for a bad wire in his attic after the power went out when he found $100,000 in cash, starting a messy legal fight over who should get the cash.
The money was hidden in a cavity cut in the insulation in four plastic bags filled with $20 and $100 bills stuffed into a strongbox. The 26-year-old computer engineer said he then recalled that someone was killed in the home four years earlier, so he called police.
"We didn't know if the murderer knew about the money," Salcedo said. "We decided the best course of action was to let someone know."
Now, the home's former owner is laying claim to the cash.
Similar bundles of cash were found hidden in the home after Scott Quinn, a 37-year-old bail bondsman and gun dealer, was found stabbed to death in 2003.
Police returned the money to the victim's estranged wife, Lana Quinn, the widow's lawyer Michael Herring said.
The alleged killer, Randolph Mora, 26, overdosed on pills in prison awaiting charges in 2004. Salcedo and his wife bought the home from Quinn in 2006.
Scott Quinn kept large amounts of cash because he frequently attended gun shows and made cash purchases as part of his business, Herring said.
He also said Salcedo had no claim to the money, but that his client would pay an undisclosed finder's fee.
Salcedo's attorney Eric Frommer insisted there was no way to prove the money belonged to Lana Quinn.
Police are keeping the cash in a vault until the two sides hash things out.
SO YOU FIND THE MONEY THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT, TURN IT IN AND NOW YOU HAVE TO FIGHT TO GET IT BACK.
WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS HUH? I WOULD HAVE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SPORADICALLY STARTED USING SOME OF IT, AND BANKING MOST OF IT. I WOULDNT HAVE EVEN TOLD MY FAMILY, WIFE/GIRLFRIEND INCLUDED
Homeowner Finds $100K, Fights For Cash
Man, Wife Of Previous Homeowner Want Cash
POSTED: 12:52 pm EDT September 28, 2007
UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT September 28, 2007
SANFORD, Fla. -- What would you do if you found $100,000 in the attic of your house?
Bernard Salcedo, 26, of Sanford, reported the finding to police, who are now holding the money, and he is trying to get it back.
Salcedo was looking for a bad wire in his attic after the power went out when he found $100,000 in cash, starting a messy legal fight over who should get the cash.
The money was hidden in a cavity cut in the insulation in four plastic bags filled with $20 and $100 bills stuffed into a strongbox. The 26-year-old computer engineer said he then recalled that someone was killed in the home four years earlier, so he called police.
"We didn't know if the murderer knew about the money," Salcedo said. "We decided the best course of action was to let someone know."
Now, the home's former owner is laying claim to the cash.
Similar bundles of cash were found hidden in the home after Scott Quinn, a 37-year-old bail bondsman and gun dealer, was found stabbed to death in 2003.
Police returned the money to the victim's estranged wife, Lana Quinn, the widow's lawyer Michael Herring said.
The alleged killer, Randolph Mora, 26, overdosed on pills in prison awaiting charges in 2004. Salcedo and his wife bought the home from Quinn in 2006.
Scott Quinn kept large amounts of cash because he frequently attended gun shows and made cash purchases as part of his business, Herring said.
He also said Salcedo had no claim to the money, but that his client would pay an undisclosed finder's fee.
Salcedo's attorney Eric Frommer insisted there was no way to prove the money belonged to Lana Quinn.
Police are keeping the cash in a vault until the two sides hash things out.
SO YOU FIND THE MONEY THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT, TURN IT IN AND NOW YOU HAVE TO FIGHT TO GET IT BACK.
WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS HUH? I WOULD HAVE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SPORADICALLY STARTED USING SOME OF IT, AND BANKING MOST OF IT. I WOULDNT HAVE EVEN TOLD MY FAMILY, WIFE/GIRLFRIEND INCLUDED
