A Las Vegas cab driver found $300,000 in the back of his cab and he was honest and kind enough to return it.

Gerard Gamboa thought someone had left a bag of chocolates in the back of his cab, but he soon discovered that it was actually $300,000 in cold hard cash.

Now Gamboa is being acknowledged for his honesty. He returned the money to an unidentified poker player and Gamboa was rewarded for what he did. He was named driver of the year by  Yellow Checker Star Transportation and was rewarded him with $1,000 and a dinner for two at a restaurant.

Gamboa told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he had another passenger when he noticed the package and began to wonder what kind of candy might have been inside. He wasn't expecting to find what he did when he looked in the bag at a traffic light.

"I told my passenger, 'You are my witness on this,'" the 13-year taxi driver told the Las Vegas Sun, "and then I immediately called my dispatcher."
When Gamboa found the money, he turned all of the six bunches of $100 bills over to his boss in the main office. The Las Vegas police and casino official connected the money to a poker player.

According to Gamboa, the man in his cab gave him a $5 tip after a trip from the Cosmopolitan resort to the Palms Place tower. Gamboa then continued on to the Bellagio resort, where a doorman helping a passenger into the car noticed the bag.

The owner of the cash wasn't immediately identified. It took several hours for the owner to be identified and for the cash to be returned. The owner took down Gamboa's information but didn't leave a reward.

"If he doesn't give me anything, that's OK," Gamboa told the Sun. "I'm not waiting for any kind of return. I just wanted to do the right thing, and I appreciate what the company did for me."