Cabbie returns $10K left by passenger

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A New York cabbie spent Christmas Eve tracking down a passenger who left $10,000 in his vehicle, the passenger said.

Felicia Lettieri, a 72-year-old Italian grandmother visiting relatives in New York, told Sunday's New York Post she left the money in a cab driven by Mukul Asaduzzaman, 28, on Christmas Eve after being picked up at Penn Station.

But, she said, instead of keeping the money, Asaduzzaman drove out to out Long Island twice looking for her, finally meeting Lettieri when she arrived back at the Patchogue, N.Y., home where she was staying.

"It was so beautiful, so kind," Lettieri told the newspaper.

The Post said Asaduzzaman, a native of Bangladesh, is a pre-med student living in Queens, N.Y. He told the newspaper he refused to accept any reward for the good deed.