A man who lost a bundle of money that fell from the top of his car in the parking lot of the Morgantown Road Walmart last month got his $9,000 back after someone turned it in to Bowling Green Police.

While a Bowling Green Police Officer was on regular patrol and in the store’s parking lot March 8, a man approached him and asked if anyone had called about him. He told police that he placed money on the roof of his car and drove off without it, according to police records. The officer looked for the money but didn’t find any.

About three hours later, the officer met with a man who called and said he saw a Dodge Challenger drive away from the store parking lot at about 1 p.m. and saw something fall from the roof of the car. He walked over to it and saw that is was a large amount of money in rubber bands. He had taken the money home, counted it and called police. That men met with police and turned over what he found.

The officer took the money but didn’t have any information on the man whom he had met earlier in the parking lot. Monday, Anthony McLeichy, of Bowling Green, called BGPD and asked if anyone had turned in the money he lost. Another officer reviewed surveillance video and verified that the money had in fact fallen from the roof of a car. McLeichy told police it should have been $12,000 and said it had been a loan to buy a car. 

Police confirmed through a driver’s license photograph that McLeichy was the man who initially reported the money missing and police returned the cash to him.