Scout who returned wallet with $800 gets own wallet returned


(AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press Photo,T.J. Hamilton) :: Boy Scout John Robert Bouterse, 11, is interviewed by a TV crew Monday night April 28, 2008. He found a wallet belonging to Jessica Cutler, in background looking on, of Wayland in the parking lot of Open Door Reformed Church in Dorr. The wallet contained $800 she lost back in January and he found it just recently during a scout activity outside the church.


Updated: 5/1/2008

DORR, Mich.

An 11-year-old Boy Scout who found and returned a wallet containing more than $800 has received some good karma for his good deed.

Thanks to publicity about his action, J.R. Bouterse (rhymes with ''doubters'') has gotten his own lost wallet back.

J.R. found the wallet of Jessica Cutler last month in a church parking lot, not long after losing his own at an Easter egg hunt. Meanwhile, Nancy Bosse and her 6-year-old granddaughter found the boy's wallet at the park where the egg hunt took place.

There was roughly $30 in it, but no ID. But they were able to get it back to J.R. after learning of his own act of honesty.

Michigan State Police officers took up a collection to give the boy a reward, but he asked instead to spend the money on a pizza party for all 30 Scouts in Troop 90.

Another guest at the Monday night party, to J.R.'s surprise, was Cutler, a 20-year-old Burger King manager, who wanted to thank him personally.


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