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# Mar Vista Thanking cops for the little things
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/mar-vista-thanking-cops-for-the-little-things-editor/
- Published: 2007-05-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:45:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Irene McHutchison Santa Monica*

This letter is to publicly thank the fine officers of the SMPD who found my lost wallet and returned it to me. I am temporarily living in Santa Monica and left my wallet in a grocery store cart. When I went back to the grocery store, the wallet was gone. I had given up all hope of ever seeing this wallet again. I didn’t care about the cash that was in it, but I had licenses pertaining to my job, credit cards, drivers license, military ID, etc.

These fine officers — Bill Heric and Chris Kauhman — found my wallet in a vehicle they had stopped. They tracked me down through my out-of-state driver’s license and showed up at my doorstep with my wallet. I wouldn’t have been able to recognize these fine officers without the help of another exceptional officer — Mike Frederico.

An enormous thank you to these outstanding officers!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 15, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051507.pdf?ref=smdp.com)