Finder of Redford's credit card gets police visit

He could have had a nice meal and free ski-lift passes. But a man who tried to get Robert Redford’s autograph as a reward for finding the film star’s lost credit card got a visit from police instead.

Police in Orem, a town close to Redford’s Utah home and his Sundance resort, said the man found the card near a shop and called the resort to report the find.

But after being offered free ski-lift passes and dinner for two if he brought the card to the resort, the man insisted on some signed Redford memorabilia.

When a resort representative responded that Redford “does not do that kind of thing,” the man said Redford wouldn’t get his card back and hung up, said Orem Police Lieutenant Doug Edwards.

Police then called the man, who refused to give his address and told an officer that he threw Redford’s card in a rubbish bin. Police traced the call and went to the man’s apartment, where they recovered the card.

The man did not get the free ski passes, nor a free dinner or an autograph. But he also escaped prosecution, Edwards said.

“The finder was not charged, on account of his sudden change of heart to gladly give the card to the officers when they arrived at his home,” he said.