Two Charged Over Salvo Suitcase Purchase

[Jollygoodfellow]

How can you be charged for buying something that was for sale even if its value was much higher.??:541:A Melbourne couple who bought a suitcase for a few dollars in a charity shop thought they'd hit the jackpot when they discovered up to $100,000 in the lining.Rather than take it back to the Beaconsfield Salvation Army store so the cash could be returned to its rightful owner, the couple - a man aged 44 and a woman, 34 - allegedly kept the money and started putting it into different bank accounts.The couple from Berwick, in Melbourne's southeast, were arrested on March 18 and have been charged with theft by finding, police said.The drama began in early March when the wife of the suitcase's owner did a clean-up at their home and took the unloved case, along with bric a brac, to the local Salvo store.Unbeknown to her, her husband had stuffed the suitcase's lining with money - tens of thousands of dollars.The Salvation Army had hoped the money would be handed in after the second-hand suitcase was bought on March 6, but police used details from an Eftpos receipt to track the buyer.A police spokeswoman described the money as a significant sum.She said most it had been recovered to the great relief of the owner - and his wife.

[Singers]

How can you be charged for buying something that was for sale even if its value was much higher.??:541:A Melbourne couple who bought a suitcase for a few dollars in a charity shop thought they'd hit the jackpot when they discovered up to $100,000 in the lining.Rather than take it back to the Beaconsfield Salvation Army store so the cash could be returned to its rightful owner, the couple - a man aged 44 and a woman, 34 - allegedly kept the money and started putting it into different bank accounts.The couple from Berwick, in Melbourne's southeast, were arrested on March 18 and have been charged with theft by finding, police said.The drama began in early March when the wife of the suitcase's owner did a clean-up at their home and took the unloved case, along with bric a brac, to the local Salvo store.Unbeknown to her, her husband had stuffed the suitcase's lining with money - tens of thousands of dollars.The Salvation Army had hoped the money would be handed in after the second-hand suitcase was bought on March 6, but police used details from an Eftpos receipt to track the buyer.A police spokeswoman described the money as a significant sum.She said most it had been recovered to the great relief of the owner - and his wife.

I don't understand that??? the owner, wife - same same - gave it to charity. It was legitimately sold?? therefore I think the "lucky couple" should keep it.It definitely was not stealing by finding. Anyway they can't even tell the right time in Melbourne!:gday:ps Many an Auction "job lot" has a hidden Gem/find. It does not have to be returned!. Edited April 6, 2010 by Singers

[tom_shor]

How can you be charged for buying something that was for sale even if its value was much higher.??A Melbourne couple who bought a suitcase for a few dollars in a charity shop thought they'd hit the jackpot when they discovered up to $100,000 in the lining.Rather than take it back to the Beaconsfield Salvation Army store so the cash could be returned to its rightful owner, the couple - a man aged 44 and a woman, 34 - allegedly kept the money and started putting it into different bank accounts.The couple from Berwick, in Melbourne's southeast, were arrested on March 18 and have been charged with theft by finding, police said.The drama began in early March when the wife of the suitcase's owner did a clean-up at their home and took the unloved case, along with bric a brac, to the local Salvo store.Unbeknown to her, her husband had stuffed the suitcase's lining with money - tens of thousands of dollars.The Salvation Army had hoped the money would be handed in after the second-hand suitcase was bought on March 6, but police used details from an Eftpos receipt to track the buyer.A police spokeswoman described the money as a significant sum.She said most it had been recovered to the great relief of the owner - and his wife.

If they had just buried it in the back yard when the police had showed up they could have just said, Money? What money? The right thing to do would have been to return it but it was legally donated and sold I really don't see why they should have been arrested.