The Vancouver Police Department is trying to find who left a large amount of cash at a Vancouver Target store recently.
The department took a report on the found property Aug. 2. The department’s evidence unit is trying to find the rightful owner.
Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp said the police are withholding details about the cash to ensure any claimants can describe it and how it was lost.
The department asked the owner to contact the evidence unit at 360-487-7404.
Large sums of missing cash have turned up in Vancouver before.
In 1997, three people left $60,000 in cash at the lounge of a now-defunct Tony Roma’s restaurant near Vancouver Mall, according to Columbian archives.
A bartender clearing a table after a woman and two men had gone noticed a leather briefcase was left under the table.
She later decided to check inside and pulled out a “huge wad of money.”
The police wanted to speak to the owners, but an apparent trace of drugs on the briefcase holding the cash and a corresponding investigation seemed to have complicated things.
A drug-sniffing dog went right to the bag when brought to the police property room.
An attorney for the owner of the cash made a claim on an owner’s behalf, although she was never identified.
After some legal wrangling, whoever apparently misplaced the cash got about $27,000 back, with the rest of it going to the IRS and $3,000 to the bartender who found the bag.
Whoever lost the bag apparently remained unknown to Vancouver police.
