{"id":23004,"date":"2023-09-05T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomic-temporary-190716364.wpcomstaging.com\/2023\/09\/05\/hombre-se-quedo-con-us-5000-que-se-encontro-en-una-funda-en-la-calle-podria-ir-preso\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:52:05","slug":"hombre-se-quedo-con-us-5000-que-se-encontro-en-una-funda-en-la-calle-podria-ir-preso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/?p=23004","title":{"rendered":"Hombre se qued\u00f3 con US$ 5,000 que se encontr\u00f3 en una funda en la calle: podr\u00eda ir preso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un hombre de Connecticut afronta un proceso legal luego de encontrar dinero en la calle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En un&nbsp;<strong>giro sorprendente<\/strong>&nbsp;de los&nbsp;<strong>acontecimientos<\/strong>, un hombre de&nbsp;<strong>Connecticut<\/strong>&nbsp;se encuentra en&nbsp;<strong>aprietos legales<\/strong>&nbsp;despu\u00e9s de&nbsp;<strong>encontrar<\/strong>&nbsp;US$5,000 en efectivo en un estacionamiento hace tres meses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robert Withington<\/strong>, de 56 a\u00f1os,&nbsp;<strong>descubri\u00f3<\/strong>&nbsp;la&nbsp;<strong>bolsa de&nbsp;dinero<\/strong>&nbsp;en la ciudad de Trumbull y, creyendo que no estaba haciendo nada malo, decidi\u00f3 qued\u00e1rsela. Sin embargo, la situaci\u00f3n tom\u00f3 un&nbsp;<strong>giro inesperado<\/strong>&nbsp;cuando las&nbsp;<strong>autoridades<\/strong>&nbsp;lo acusaron de hurto mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La bolsa, que Withington encontr\u00f3 fuera de un banco, llevaba la insignia de la&nbsp;<strong>instituci\u00f3n<\/strong>&nbsp;y estaba acompa\u00f1ada de documentos que presuntamente identificaban a la ciudad como la leg\u00edtima propietaria del&nbsp;<strong>dinero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Withington, en su defensa, afirm\u00f3 que no rob\u00f3 el&nbsp;<strong>dinero<\/strong>&nbsp;y que en el momento en que lo encontr\u00f3, sinti\u00f3 que hab\u00eda &#8220;ganado la loter\u00eda&#8221;. Asegur\u00f3 que no vio las anotaciones que indicaban a qui\u00e9n pertenec\u00edan los fondos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seg\u00fan \u00e9l, simplemente encontr\u00f3 el&nbsp;<strong>dinero<\/strong>&nbsp;en el suelo del estacionamiento cuando no hab\u00eda nadie&nbsp;<strong>alrededor<\/strong>, por lo que decidi\u00f3 recogerlo. En sus propias palabras: &#8220;No es como si hubiera robado algo&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las&nbsp;<strong>autoridades<\/strong>, tras meses de investigaci\u00f3n, llegaron a la&nbsp;<strong>conclusi\u00f3n<\/strong>&nbsp;de que la bolsa se hab\u00eda ca\u00eddo accidentalmente fuera del banco y que Withington la hab\u00eda recogido. Aunque admiti\u00f3 haber agarrado la bolsa, Withington argument\u00f3 que no crey\u00f3 tener la obligaci\u00f3n de devolverla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Este&nbsp;<strong>inusual caso<\/strong>&nbsp;ha llevado a Withington a enfrentar&nbsp;<strong>cargos<\/strong>&nbsp;de hurto en tercer grado, con una pena potencial de hasta cinco a\u00f1os de prisi\u00f3n y multas de hasta $5,000 d\u00f3lares. A pesar de su situaci\u00f3n, el acusado sigue sosteniendo que no ten\u00eda&nbsp;<strong>intenci\u00f3n<\/strong>&nbsp;de cometer un delito y que, si hubiera sabido que estaba equivocado, habr\u00eda devuelto la bolsa sin dudarlo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Withington, un adiestrador de perros y sin antecedentes penales previos, deber\u00e1&nbsp;<strong>comparecer<\/strong>&nbsp;nuevamente en el tribunal el 5 de septiembre para enfrentar los&nbsp;<strong>cargos<\/strong>&nbsp;en su contra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hombre se qued\u00f3 con US$ 5,000 que se encontr\u00f3 en una funda en la calle: podr\u00eda ir preso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internacionales","category-justicia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/849noticias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/da78f-1000161787_1600x927.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54502,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004\/revisions\/54502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/849noticias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}