Homeless Man Looks for Bottles and Finds Bonds
A homeless man searching for returnable bottles in a trash bin in Detroit found 31 U.S. savings bonds worth nearly $21,000 in a bag of clothes.
Charles Moore, 59, took the bonds to a 24-hour walk-in homeless shelter, where a staffer tracked down the family of the man whose name was on the bonds. “They belong to him,” Moore told The Detroit News. “I did the right thing.”
Ernest Lehto’s family had given away many of his clothes after his death in 2004. How the bonds ended up in the trash bin is a mystery, but Lehto’s family left Moore a $100 reward.
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