stolen from USA Women’s Volleyball player Jordyn Poulter’s car in MayNoe Hernandez, 49, and his wife, Maria Carrillo, 50, who have lived in Anaheim around 30 years, turned in the medal to the Anaheim Police Department on Monday night, June 27.
Carrillo, who works at Carrillas Income Tax Services on State College Boulevard in Anaheim, said she found a McDonald’s bag with a small black bag inside it behind the building while cleaning up.Anybody could have walked by and left it, Carrillo said.“I didn’t know if it was real or not, but it was heavy, ” Carrillo said.
A client getting a haircut had caught news coverage about the stolen medal. Carrillo and her husband, whose first language is Spanish, don’t watch much English television.“I was surprised — how is an important medal in the trash?” Maria Carrillo said. “I think that it is really important to the lady.”