{"id":271975,"date":"2026-05-15T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271975\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:15:13","slug":"florida-man-luis-salazar-returns-fanny-pack-found-in-wawa-gas-station-bathroom-containing-30000-to-its-rightful-owner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271975\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man Luis Salazar returns fanny pack found in Wawa gas station bathroom containing $30,000 to its rightful owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FLORIDA (KABC) &#8212; A man in Florida is walking proof that some people are still choosing to do the right thing, even if it means returning $30,000 to its rightful owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Luis Salazar was in this exact situation when he noticed a fanny pack hanging on a railing inside a bathroom of a Wawa gas station recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When he opened the pack to look for identification after failing to find the owner, he was shocked to find a large amount of cash inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The owner eventually reporting it missing, and Salazar returned it immediately once police identified the individual through security footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;So, I give him his bag. &#8216;This is yours.&#8217; And he was crying. And he hugged me,&#8221; said Salazar, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s not my money to take. I was not raised that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The owner of the fanny pack said he was carrying the money for a family emergency and was shocked that it was even returned to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Salazar emphasized that he never even considered keeping it.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA (KABC) &#8212; A man in Florida is walking proof that some people are still choosing to do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116315,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-271975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-116315","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}