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9-yr-old returns $5K found in recently bought van, gets $1K reward

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  • Nine-year-old Landon Melvin found a stashed cash amounting to $5,000 while cleaning their family’s newly acquired van.
  • When his dad Michael knew about it, the family tracked down the previous owners of the car and was able to find the rightful cash owner.
  • They returned the cash, and the little boy was rewarded with $1,000 for his integrity.

Landon Melvin, nine years old, was just cleaning their family van, when he suddenly spotted a stash of cash worth $5,000 underneath the floor mat.

Landon quickly approached his dad to tell him what he found, but his dad thought that the little boy was only being playful so he just shrugged it off.

His dad Michael Melvin admitted to WRTV, “I was like, ‘Whatever.’ He’s nine. I’m like, ‘Yeah, you found something, OK.’”

Nonetheless, Landon didn’t stop and convinced his dad to check out the mysterious van treasure he found, and he was successful.

While Michael was expecting some old paperwork, he was instead greeted by a cold, hard cash, just like what his son told him.

The family just bought the SUV in September, so they knew the money doesn’t belong to them. So, the Melvins tracked down the former owners of the car, until they found the rightful owner of the cash.

Without regrets, they returned the money, which belonged to a South Carolina family who had taken a trip to Florida for a cruise and misplaced the stash.

Michael told WRTV that they never thought of keeping the cash for themselves. He said, “It never crossed my mind. I immediately thought, ‘I need to find out who this belongs to.”

The owners were extremely grateful that the Melvin family returned the money to them and insisted that Landon keeps $1,000 of it.

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Melvin wasn’t really expecting a reward for what he did he thought was right, but he was appreciative of the gift and insisted that his mom should keep the money for him — definitely not underneath any floor mat.

Source: Tank’s Good News

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