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Loose cash found along Ohio highway totals $21K
DELAWARE, Ohio
Loose cash found along a highway has made a central Ohio community nearly $21,000 richer.
Delaware city officials have revealed that’s how much money police collected on a day in early March, when one officer said it looked as though the median on U.S. Route 23 was growing money. The city north of Columbus held on to the cash for nearly five months and kept the amount secret to see if anyone would try to claim it. Since no one did, the windfall now goes into Delaware’s general fund.
City Community Affairs Coordinator Lee Yoakum told The Delaware Gazette that officials have not decided how to use the money.
The newspaper reported that authorities suspect it was from a drug sale or some other illegal activity.
Pa. redevelopment head tied to empty-home burglary
WILKINSBURG, Pa.
The head of a blighted Pittsburgh suburb’s redevelopment authority has been tied to a burglary in which copper piping and fixtures were stolen from a home on a list of vacant and abandoned properties she oversaw.
Online court records do not list an attorney for 65-year-old Kate Luxemburg, who lives in Wilkinsburg where she is also chairmwoman of the borough authority.
But those records do confirm a report by WTAE-TV that Luxemburg was charged with theft, criminal conspiracy and other crimes for a break-in reportedly committed by another man, who also is being charged.
The Associated Press could not immediately locate a phone number for Luxemburg, and borough officials did not immediately return a call for comment on the charges filed against her by borough police.
Associated Press