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.