"When we arrived, the couple gave us the money. It might be the money stolen last week from a Japanese restaurant," said Bruno dos Santos, a Brazilian military police spokesman.
The homeless pair "had the opportunity to flee with the money, but they called a security guard and asked him to call the military police. What they did is commendable," the spokesman said.
Jesus Silva Santos, the man who found the money, told the press that he earned a little more than £5 a day from recycling rubbish.
"My mother taught me never to steal," he said.
Source: agencies
