After more than a year, about six months of which was spent maneuvering legal hurdles, a judge ruled that Tracey can have the money after no one claimed it.
"The bureaucracy was a nightmare for the guy," Upper Darby police Superintendent Michael Chitwood told the Philadelphia Enquirer. "He had to jump through a lot of hoops for being honest. Most people would have taken the money and kept on going."
While police received a few calls about the money when it was first turned in, those people did not have any proof that it was theirs.
Police also found a digital scale, a crack pipe and an unidentified liquid in the bag, so they said it was unlikely that the owners would come forward to claim the cash.
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