He was short about $100 on rent and arguing about it at Walmart. Then a 37-year-old Lewisville, Texas, barber walked up to a Bank of America ATM on West Main Street and found bags holding $128,514 in cash plus 19 checks sitting right on top of the machine.
Instead of cashing in, he got scared.
“Bro, you know what I felt when I seen it? I got scared, bro. I didn’t get excited,”
The man told Lewisville Officer J. Nazario on body-camera video released later. He started shaking and immediately thought about calling police.
“Bro, I got scared, man. I started shaking. I’m like, what do I do? I called the laws.”
The discovery happened around 10 a.m. on August 3, 2026. The barber, who asked to remain anonymous, was with a 42-year-old friend. Markings on one bag pointed toward a nearby Chick-fil-A, so they drove the money there first. A manager confirmed it wasn’t theirs the ATM still carried an old identifier from a former Chick-fil-A location now operating as another business. With restaurant staff present, they called 911.
The money was manually counted twice, as well as fed through a digital cash counter. The amount was identical to that written on a receipt from the bank located in the bag: $128,514, not a dollar less. It was found out that the mistake was made by a Brink’s service worker who had forgotten to take the bags back after working on the machine of Bank of America.
The man openly told police he has a prior felony conviction and felt the temptation.
“I could have took off today. Spent it in Mexico,”
He said. But he insisted,
“I didn’t take a dollar, bro. I swear to God.”
He also explained his rent shortfall:
“I’m arguing with her at the Walmart because I’m short on rent. Go to the ATM, I’m short 100.”
Brook Rollins, chief of Lewisville Police Department, said,
“This person didn’t even blink. They took it straight to where they thought it should go.”
According to Detective Gina Miller, she had never seen someone turn in that much. It would be considered felony theft according to Texas laws to keep something identifiable knowingly. The police force was interested in rewarding him privately for this act; however, he stated that he would accept an invitation for this if he received one but did not seek any reward. Whether Bank of America offered any monetary reward is yet to be verified.
When most of the incidents of found cash end up with different outcomes, what the barber did can be called a simple case of honesty. The body camera video of officer Nazario shows that he told the barber,
“It takes a lot to do the right thing… especially, like you said, in this day and age.”
