Accused triple-murderer and fugitive Christopher Dorner, who has dominated news headlines in recent days as an intense search for him has spanned California and beyond, was featured in an Oklahoma newspaper in a much more positive light in 2002.

A news story originally written in 2002 and re-published on EnidNews.com Friday gives an account of the suspect and another man finding a bank bag containing nearly $8,000 and immediately turning it in to police.

Dorner, who was in the Navy, and the other good Samaritan, a Marine, were both students at Vance Air Force Base at the time, the news agency reported.

They were reportedly

driving into town Nov. 2, 2002, when they spotted a bank bag in the middle of the street.

Inside they discovered $7,792 in cash and checks that belonged to a local church, and promptly brought the money to the police department.

"The military stresses integrity," Dorner told EnidNews.com. "There was a couple of thousand dollars, and if people are willing to give that to a church, it must be pretty important to them."

"I didn't work for it, so it's not mine. And it was for the church," he added. "It's not so much the integrity, but it was someone else's money. I would hope someone would do that for me."

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