Student Brings $20K to School: Gives Cash Away to Classmates (VIDEO)
Police are investigating a 12-year-old girl after she showed up to class with $20,000 and began to give the money away.
According to reports, police are investigating a situation at the Academy Building in Taylor, Michigan after a student began giving away money to her fellow students.
The girl, 12, gave $200 to one student and $500 to another, ABC 7 News reported. The 12-year-old, who was not identified, allegedly told classmates that a friend in her neighborhood had given her the money. The girl's family members, however, have claimed that the money actually belongs to them. The school principal notified police after it was discovered that the student was handing out the cash.
Police have taken the cash, according to ABC, and are awaiting an explanation from the family as to where the money came from and what it was to be used for, before they return it.
Locals who responded to the story have commented about it being unusual for a family to be carrying $20,000 in cash.
"This is an out right LIE! No one in Taylor has 20k in cash," Tom Fry wrote on an ABC blog.
"This story is from my own city, it's driving my nuts trying to figure out where the kid got the money!" Chelsea EverlastingDreamer Tregenza wrote on Facebook.
Confirmation of where the money came from has not yet been made.
Crime rates in Taylor are slightly higher when compared to all of Michigan and the national average. According to neighborhoodscout.com the number of property crimes that took place in Taylor last year was estimated at 40 per 1,000 residents verses a national average of 29.
