$55,000 cash found hidden in St. Louis County jail bathroom
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CLAYTON — It was not the kind of paper you'd expect to find by a toilet.
A St. Louis County jail employee found bundles of cash stuffed behind a tissue dispenser in a prisoner booking area restroom, and officials counted out $55,000 in $50 and $100 bills.
Whose? They don't know. Why? There is only speculation. What happens to the money now? It's still under research.
Perhaps a criminal suspect, wary that discovery of such a large sum might be used as evidence in a trial, ditched it before being thoroughly searched. The restroom is in a secure area of the St. Louis County Justice Center in downtown Clayton.
Police interviewed jail inmates, including those booked immediately before the money was found July 2, but no one admitted knowing anything about it.
"We really don't know where it came from, so I guess you could consider any possibility," said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne, whose department is investigating.
He said he was not sure if the cash had been found by a guard or maintenance worker. A jail spokesman confirmed that the money had been found but referred all other questions to police.
Officials deposited the cash in a bank, as investigators looked for any link to a theft, or holdup.
The city attorney is researching what to do with the money if its origin cannot be determined and nobody claims it, the chief said. He said the bills were not marked in any particular way.
The stash was found in a surprisingly small space for such a large sum, Byrne said. "Quite frankly, it wasn't quite as big a stack as I would have thought."
A St. Louis County jail employee found bundles of cash stuffed behind a tissue dispenser in a prisoner booking area restroom, and officials counted out $55,000 in $50 and $100 bills.
Whose? They don't know. Why? There is only speculation. What happens to the money now? It's still under research.
Perhaps a criminal suspect, wary that discovery of such a large sum might be used as evidence in a trial, ditched it before being thoroughly searched. The restroom is in a secure area of the St. Louis County Justice Center in downtown Clayton.
Police interviewed jail inmates, including those booked immediately before the money was found July 2, but no one admitted knowing anything about it.
"We really don't know where it came from, so I guess you could consider any possibility," said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne, whose department is investigating.
He said he was not sure if the cash had been found by a guard or maintenance worker. A jail spokesman confirmed that the money had been found but referred all other questions to police.
Officials deposited the cash in a bank, as investigators looked for any link to a theft, or holdup.
The city attorney is researching what to do with the money if its origin cannot be determined and nobody claims it, the chief said. He said the bills were not marked in any particular way.
The stash was found in a surprisingly small space for such a large sum, Byrne said. "Quite frankly, it wasn't quite as big a stack as I would have thought."
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