The only way it would be valuable to the cops would be if it was used in a crime and still had some fingerprints on it.
“The only way it would be valuable to the cops would be if it was used in a crime and still had some fingerprints on it.”
Or other physical evidence was found at the drop site, or canvassing produced a witness who saw something being thrown out of a car and provided description of the time or vehicle, or it wasn’t thrown from a car at all but was part of a nearby crime scene.