Op shop cash returned to owner Poll: If you found $50,000 in an op shop suitcase, what would you do? Hand it over to the police, it's the right thing to do Hand it over to the police to avoid the guilt Take the cash home, weigh up the pros and cons, then hand in the cash Take the cash home, weigh up the pros and cons, then keep the money Pocket the cash, but suffer from a guilty conscience Finders keepers - pocket the cash with no qualms Other, leave a comment below Total votes: 318. Police have used handwriting experts to return $50,000 in cash found in a bag at an op shop to its rightful owner. Plenty of people staked a claim to the loot, which was found in an overnight bag by a man who purchased it at a Red Cross secondhand shop in Pomona on the Sunshine Coast three months ago. Sergeant Dan McNamara said forensic experts matched handwriting found in the bag with one of the many people who made a claim. "We took a number of statements," he told told 90.3FM ABC Sunshine Coast. We had forensic testing specifically in the area of document examination. There's actually examples of handwriting located with the found money and we were able to compare that favourably with examples from the individual's family. The owner of the bag is believed to be an elderly woman and the case was handed to the charity store after she moved house. Sergeant McNamara said he had been a policeman for 27 years but had not seen a case like this before. "It's just great to get it back because I can say that they're a very decent family and it was good to see," he said. It was a very thorough sort of investigation - we really didn't leave any stone unturned. We just initially did not have any idea where this money had come from and in this day and age it was concerning but it was also extremely interesting.