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“I believe this speaks to the character of our police officers in Bridgeport. Every day, they work hard keeping our kids and families safe,” Finch said in a statement. “I was extremely grateful, but not remotely surprised when, I heard that Officer Cronin brought the wallet to the Fairfield Police Department.”
Last week, a woman found a cash-filled wallet outside Whole Foods in Fairfield. As it turns out, the woman who found it is the girlfriend Bridgeport police Officer Kevin Cronin. She turned the wallet over to him at Bridgeport Police Headquarters.
Cronin then contacted Fairfield police, took the wallet and turned it over to a Fairfield officer at the town line.
According to Fairfield police, the wallet contained $6,300.
The woman who lost the wallet lives in New Jersey and was visiting a friend who is a patient at Bridgeport Hospital.
“We just want to say thank you because there are many times that we may take police officers for granted,” Finch said in a statement.
“He is a good man who did the right thing without a second thought,” Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr said of Cronin. “I’m proud to call him a colleague on the Bridgeport Police Department.”
If anyone deserved credit, it was his girlfriend, Cronin said. He downplayed the episode, saying he only did what any other police officer would have done.
“I’m glad she got her money back. It’s the right thing to do," Cronin said. "When you find something that doesn’t belong to you, you return it.”
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