Good Samaritan sought in return of missing wallet
MARQUETTE — On Thursday, a local couple mistakenly left a wallet full of valuables at a store and later learned it was turned into the police with everything accounted for.
Cassandra and Brannon Smith, the latter being the wallet’s owner, took a trip to a local pharmacy in Marquette to pick up a prescription, and while chatting, left the wallet on the store counter. Unbeknownst to them, the couple returned home before realizing the wallet was missing, Cassandra Smith said.
They searched the car before heading to the pharmacy but found it was no longer there.
“We started to get nervous,” Smith said. “We had a lot of cash in there.”
The couple received a sum of cash as a Christmas present which they had in the wallet, along with identification cards, Social Security cards and more.
With the large amount of valuables inside the wallet, the couple kept looking around the store, bent on finding it. They were out of luck, until they saw a nearby police officer.
“I told my husband to go ask the police officer,” said Cassandra Smith, “and he said, ‘No one would turn a wallet in with that much stuff to the police.’
“Before we knew it, the officer was walking towards us with it in his hand.”
The officer explained that a patron from the store called the police, after finding the wallet, to make sure it was in safe hands and the officer arrived and decided to wait for the couple to return.
“The person took the time out of their day to make sure our valuables were safe,” Smith said. “I don’t know any possible way to thank him or her.”
Cassandra Smith was in awe of the kindness of a random Marquette stranger.
“My husband is (originally) a resident of Marquette, and I am from Florida,” Smith said. “The reason we moved up (here) was because he talked about how nice everyone was and I have never lived in a place where this would happen.”
Cassandra Smith sincerely thanks the mystery patron for their selflessness and generous act of kindness.
“I would tell them thank you for protecting our home, our identity,” she said. “They could have done anything with that wallet. My husband’s whole life is in that wallet and they saved us and gave us peace of mind.”
To the patron that saved her husband’s finances, identity and much more, Smith wishes for the word of thanks to get back to the that patron.
“I hope so, I really do,” Cassandra Smith said.
Antonio Anderson can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 550. His email address is aanderson@miningjournal.net.