Good Samaritan Returns Lost $3,500 Found on Morristown Street

A Grinch could have easily stole Christmas for one Mendham man.

Instead, a 29-year-old East Orange woman didn't think twice about returning the $3,500 in cash Chris Gagnon, 50, dropped on the sidewalk outside a Citibank in downtown Morristown just two days before Christmas.

Chanti Carter-Rene told NJ.com she could have used the wad of $100 bills for a security deposit on an apartment for her and her 2-year-old daughter, but "the guilt would kill me."

Carter-Rene returned the money to Citibank where Gagnon picked it up.

“I was just so grateful, what a wonderful thing," he told NJ.com.