Public toilet tanks around the community were checked repeatedly over the weekend as residents hoped they would be the next to find a cache of cash in Marysville.
The lookie-loos were on patrol after large sums of cash were found in multiple toilets in Marysville recently.
“Nothing was found over the weekend,” said Capt. Nate Sachs, with the Marysville Division of Police. “There was no money recovered over the weekend.”
He added, “Plus, we didn’t get any calls that people were vandalizing any bathrooms over the weekend, so that’s a good thing.”
According to a report from the Marysville Division of Police, employees at the local KFC, 839 Delaware Ave., found more than $10,000 hidden in a pair of toilets at the restaurant Thursday.
On April 27, an employee at the Avalon Theatre, 121 S. Main St., found more than $20,000 in a pair of toilets there after watching a patron acting suspicious.
Sachs said detectives will begin looking at the specific incidents and how they are connected this week. He reiterated that as of now, there is no crime and police are simply trying to determine what’s happening.
“We bounced just some random ideas off the wall, but nothing stuck or really makes sense,” Sachs said. “Obviously, because we are cops, our mind goes to ‘Is this something criminal going on?’ But honestly, everything is possible, everything is on the board right now.”
Sachs said investigators have confirmed that the money is not counterfeit, though he did not give the details of how that determination was made.
He said the local police department has not reached out to state or federal authorities to help, but may in the future.
Sachs said that even as the drama fades, if someone does find a significant amount of money, they are asked to contact police.
Police have reached out to City Law Director Tim Aslaner to see what happens to the money if it is never claimed and police cannot determine where it came from of belongs.
Sachs said that question is easier compared to many of the other questions.
“I think maybe it is always going to be there,” Sachs said. “This may be one of those things that’s a head scratcher, that when I retire, I say, ‘We never found out where that money was from.’”