The taxi driver took it to the police and police officer Weng Ching-ju did a lot of computer tracking to find the hotel where he was staying. Hamzeh rushed to the police station and picked up his wallet, which had his passport and list of business contacts as well as his money. He was ecstatic. But he didn’t shake hands with the police officer who helped him because she was a woman. The Taipei Times reported he instead bowed deeply several times and said “thank you” repeatedly in Mandarin, one of the few Chinese phrases he had learned.
