Police believe transients sifting through the trash came across quite a treasure - $37,000 in cash.
Two international gem dealers who hid the loot in a wastebasket of their hotel room say a maid unknowingly threw the valuables away.The dealers, a man and his son from the Czech Republic, had hidden the money in a brown paper bag under the plastic liner in the wastebasket.
The maid said the father was present when she emptied the wastebasket in the hallway.