1) You identify the source of the documents (not necessarily who they refer to but who created them) and you return them.
2) You turn them into a nearby law enforcement office and get a receipt.
3) You destroy them and forgot you ever saw them.
#1 it is important to know the source, if you go by the company in the printouts and the source was an SEC auditor who was looking into the company, then returning them to the company being audited would screw up the SEC audit. In #2 it is important to get a receipt because if the documents are part of a larger problem going on you will want to be able to prove you held them for a very short time as you transferred them to the police. Anything else and whether or not you did anything with them you will be part of the investigation. And #3, they were lost in the first place, someone knows they are lost and are dealing with that. That just finishes a path they were already on. [1]
Under no circumstances do you try to profit from the discovery as that will make you a criminal in the eyes of the law. That stuff always turns out badly.
[1] Note my wife suggested that you might give them to the Taxi driver to take back to their lost and found so if the owner called in looking for them they would have them handy.
1) You identify the source of the documents (not necessarily who they refer to but who created them) and you return them.
2) You turn them into a nearby law enforcement office and get a receipt.
3) You destroy them and forgot you ever saw them.
#1 it is important to know the source, if you go by the company in the printouts and the source was an SEC auditor who was looking into the company, then returning them to the company being audited would screw up the SEC audit. In #2 it is important to get a receipt because if the documents are part of a larger problem going on you will want to be able to prove you held them for a very short time as you transferred them to the police. Anything else and whether or not you did anything with them you will be part of the investigation. And #3, they were lost in the first place, someone knows they are lost and are dealing with that. That just finishes a path they were already on. [1]
Under no circumstances do you try to profit from the discovery as that will make you a criminal in the eyes of the law. That stuff always turns out badly.
[1] Note my wife suggested that you might give them to the Taxi driver to take back to their lost and found so if the owner called in looking for them they would have them handy.