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Good Samaritan Reunites Falls Church Grad With Lost Card And Cash

Fairfax City Police help a Good Samaritan reunite a Falls Church High graduate with a missing congratulations card written in Vietnamese.

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Pfc. Tran of the Fairfax City Police Department returns the $50 that was discovered in a card recovered from the Fairfax High School parking lot Thursday morning. The recipient is a graduate of Falls Church High School, which had its ceremony in Fairfax.
Pfc. Tran of the Fairfax City Police Department returns the $50 that was discovered in a card recovered from the Fairfax High School parking lot Thursday morning. The recipient is a graduate of Falls Church High School, which had its ceremony in Fairfax. (City of Fairfax Police)

FAIRFAX CITY, VA — City of Fairfax Police helped a Good Samaritan Thursday reunite a high-school graduate with a congratulations card from his grandmother, according to a post on the department's official Twitter account.

Someone attending the Falls Church High School graduation ceremony Thursday morning at Fairfax High School discovered a congratulations card with $50 in it in the school parking lot. The person who found the card and cash turned it over to city police

The immediate problem that officers had to tackle was that the card was written in Vietnamese.

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"Through a translator,. we were able to get the name written on the card," said Sgt. Brock Rutter, public information officers with the city police. "We then were able to reach out to the Falls Church school administration and they were able to give us contact information for the graduate who was at the event."

The card and money turned out to be a gift from a grandmother to her grandson. After contacting the Falls Church grad, police reunited him with the card and the cash.

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After translating the name on the card that was written in Vietnamese, Lt. Hawkins (left) and Pfc. Tran were able to return it to the Falls Church High School grad outside police headquarters. (City of Fairfax Police)

"Graduations are a special time for families and their graduates," Rutter said. "It’s nice to know that somebody appreciated the fact that it was a graduation gift and turned it in."

Since it's graduation season, city police officers been helping with traffic outside local high schools during the ceremonies. They were at Woodson High School Wednesday morning and Fairfax High School on Thursday morning, according to posts on Twitter.

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