CLEVELAND-A security guard will get a $ 75,000 reward for returning $640,000 that fell from an armored truck, even though he held on to the money two days before returning it, authorities said on Tuesday.
FBI officials at first didn’t agree to any reward being paid to Mark Morant, 38, because they felt he held on to the money too long in an apparent indecision over whether he could get away with keeping it.
Morant, the father of three children, said he never planted to keep the money. He said he tried last Thursday to call the Federal Reserve Bank about finding the missing money the day it fell from the truck in downtown Cleveland, but was unable to reach any bank officials with a pay phone call.
The Cleveland man returned the money to the bank last Friday in three unopened bundles. Morant said he was questioned by FBI officials, who were skeptical(不相信的) about his motivations, but they finally decided he had done nothing wrong by the 48-hour delay in returning the money.
Van Harp, agent in charge of the Cleveland FBI office, said they decided he should get the reward because he had the money intact without even breaking into the bundles.
At Systems, the armored truck company which offered the reward, announced that besides the $75,000 it would pay a $10,000 reward to the man who saw Morant gather up the fallen money and who gave his description to police.

克里夫兰——星期二，官方透露一名保安人员在私自保存一笔从运钞车上不慎掉落的64万美元巨款2天后，将这笔巨款归还。为此，他将得到7。5万美元的奖励。
美国联邦调查局官方表示，这名叫做Mark Morant的38岁保安人员将不会得到任何奖励，原因是很明显地他在用这两天时间决定是否将这笔巨款归还。
据这位三个孩子的父亲Morant讲，他从未打算过私自留下这笔钱。他曾在上周四试着电话联系过联邦政府银行，但是没有接通。
上周五，他将这三大包从未开封的钱还给银行。由于联邦调查局怀疑他的动机不纯，Morant接受了他们的问讯。不过，他们最终认定Morant在这48小时里并没有任何过错。克里夫兰联邦调查局的主管VAN HARP说，因为Morant保证了这些装有巨款的包袱原封不动，他应该获得奖励。
提供这些奖励的运钞公司宣布，除了这7.5万美元之外，他们还将奖励给看见Morant拾到巨款并描述给警察的一名目击者1万美元。