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Lost money found after holiday plea

December 12, 2014—updated from previous publication on December 10, 2014.

Update: On Wednesday, someone claimed the $500 turned in to Annapolis police earlier this week. “It does sound like a happy ending,” said Marla Weisenberg, who had found the money and turned it in.

After offering a helping hand, she needs one.

Marla Weisenberg of Annapolis was taking a late walk downtown Monday night with her dog and not much on her mind other than let’s make the walk quick. It was cold and drizzly, so hurry up your business.

As she walked along Franklin Street near the Banneker-Douglass Museum, something on the ground caught her eye.

Money.

“Kind of a lot of money,” she says.

The kind of a lot of money you don’t want to leave on any ground.

What to do, what to do.

It’s not common for that much money to be lying around the streets of Annapolis. Could be stolen—or not.

Weisenberg took the money home and the next day she made the rounds around Church Circle, dropping into the courthouse and post office and anywhere to leave word about what she had found. When no one had any leads, she turned the envelope into Annapolis police Tuesday afternoon. Talked to a nice officer, she says. Got his business card and a case number and everything.

“I just want them to have their money back,” Weisenberg says. “I don’t want them throwing up their hands thinking their money is just gone.”

So, the search is on for “them”—or he or she or, maybe, them. Someone missing a kind of lot of money around the holidays.

Marla Weisenberg won’t talk about how much or any other details because she wants to leave that to the police to handle the claiming end of things. She just wants the money back where it belongs.

“To make their Christmas a little merrier,” as she says.

If anyone has a clue about the case of the missing money, call Annapolis police at 410-268-9000 and ask for Officer Rodney Butler. He’s a nice man, we hear.