Crooks beware: There are good kids out there looking to thwart your dastardly — and dumb — deeds.

Or as Donna Myers sees it, her son returning a stolen purse with nearly $2,000 cash is good beating evil.

On Saturday morning, Myers and her three kids helped their Fisher Park neighbors plant and water 12 trees in the park near North Elm Street .

Myers and her oldest son, 11-year-old Edward , went to retrieve water from the creek and spotted a waterlogged purse on the bank.

Edward, a Boy Scout, jumped down three feet onto a flat rock to grab the heavy, black purse. Myers unzipped the bag and the wallet inside.

“I noticed there was no money on the side billfold part, and I opened up this zipper and that’s where I saw all the Benjamins,” she said.

Nineteen of them, police said.

Officer M.L. Sletten arrived and called the phone number on a checkbook.

The owner of the purse showed up a short time later. She said she had left her purse in the car on Thanksgiving while visiting her daughter on Magnolia Street .

When she returned, her car had been broken into and her purse was gone. About $30 in the main billfold was stolen.

Sletten said the suspects likely flung the purse in the creek.

As a reward, the woman gave Edward one of those soaked $100 bills. He bought a $60 Carolina Panthers jersey and gave the rest to his mom.

“It was a great ending,” Myers said. “Especially right here before the holidays.”

Source: news-record.com