Honest worker at KCI returns $265,000 in jewelry

A bag with $265,000 in jewelry is found — and promptly returned — by this conscientious worker.
By MIKE RICE
The Kansas City Star
“I knew that I had stepped onto something that should not have been there,” Robert Lewis says of his find at KCI.

“I thought it was a pretty good deal on his part to bring the bag to us.”
KCI Police Chief Al Lomax

For a split second, Robert Lewis thought about hoarding a 40-pound bag of jewelry he found in the middle of an intersection at Kansas City International Airport.

But he chose the honest path and gave the bag to police.

Now he is $10,000 richer for it.

Lewis, a 36-year-old Midwest Airlines ramp agent, was headed home about 9 p.m. Monday after working 17 straight hours at the airline and at his second job as a bell captain at the Kansas City Airport Marriott hotel.

As he was leaving the hotel, he saw an orange bag in the street.

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and it had close to 300 thousand bucks in it and he turned it in and the person who it belonged to paid for all his four years of college, which he was on the way to enroll in on that fateful day. Its always good to know that there are still good honest people out there.

Karma - how can you not believe in it?

and proud

And yay for Robert Lewis!

They both racked up some mighty sweet karma. Good for them! :applause:

would of pocketed it.

with some geeky college kid who cried real tears and begged him not to call the police or his insurance agent.

This was pre-cellphone days, so my friend followed the kid to the nearest payphone and they rtalked to the kid's daddy on the phone.

The next afternoon, he was picked up at college and driven into kansas city to a Ford dealership which was owned by the kid's Daddy.

He was offered any car he wanted in exchange for not reporting the accident, which pretty much wiped out his Mother's old Volvo (his car)..Apparently the kid was one accident away from serious legal trouble..

Not too loong after that his new car was delivered to him..... his new Shelby Cobra...looked like this one

what a hell of a lesson to all the kids involved in what could have been a tragedy

A former teenaged neighbor ran over another neighbor's child, broke the 8 year old's leg and was real lucky he did not kill him.

Found out later that was his 3rd accident, but the other two had been hushed up. He never really learned his lesson that their are consequences to bad driving. There is a reason that his insurance rates would have gone up. Obviously he didn't learn anything from his prior accidents. Does he have to kill some innocent soul before he learns???

No winners in your story.

I grew up with the richest kids in KC. Their parents routinely bought their way out of trouble. Not saying that's okay. Just that it happens.

I went to high school with a couple kids whose dads owned dealerships here in KC. That story sounds pretty familiar. :)

Our friend was surprised when the dad coughed up the Shelby Mustang..

Um, I don't, either. But I'll bet it's REALLY hard.

but considering the number/amount of security cameras at the airport, he probably would have been caught in short order had he kept the valuables.

BTW...

Looks like handling luggage all those years pays-off for forearm, upper arm and shoulder development...

wallet last week...it was NOT returned and the man who found it charged a computer at Office Max and something at Home Depot, using a WOMAN'S credit card! She knows it was a man because the cashier at Office Max remembered him buying a computer.

In all he charged $1,600 in approx ten minutes.

Nice to see there are some honest people out there, unfortunately the guy who found my director's wallet was not honest at all.