Luke Coelho recently moved to Worcester Massachusetts, from Brazil, so the 17-year-old high school senior needed to get some warm clothes. His school has a clothes donation program and got a jacket that someone had donated.
When the teen put on the jacket for the first time, he realized there was something in a zippered pocket and pulled out some valuable items including a pair of Gucci watches, a diamond and emerald tennis bracelet, and two diamond rings. Luke knew they could make him a lot of money but decided it was more important to return them to their rightful owner. There wasn't a lot of info to work with other than the name “Dave” was on the jacket and the name of a company that was long since out of business.
Luke spent the next day running down the clues to try and locate the jewelry’s owner and after some phone calls and Internet sleuthing, it led him to Dave Kenney. Dave didn’t even know he was missing the items, but he was overjoyed to be getting them back. The rings included the wedding ring he bought for his wife, who passed away recently and other items belonged to his late mother. "It meant the world that my daughters got their mother's stuff back," Kenney says. He was impressed that Luke did the right thing and returned the jewelry and as a thank you to his new friend, he gave him a job! "This fine young man did the right thing. I totally appreciate what they did for me and my family. As for employees he's already demonstrated that he's trustworthy, smart and clever enough to track me down. I feel lucky to have him on my team"!