Being a single mom isn’t easy, but try coupling that with losing your job and battling a life-threatening illness. Everything seemed to be a struggle for Naomi Norelli in recent years, which is why some local police officers sought to make life a little bit easier for her.
Norelli found out she had cancer when she was pregnant with her second child.
After that, she had to move to Denver, Colorado for a new job only to find out soon thereafter that the job fell through. Thankfully, she was able to get a new job but the car she bought to get to that job every day died.
So, she bought a new car and was assured at the dealership that she wouldn’t have to incur any additional costs. They just left out the fact that she would have to pay $400 for registration tags.
“Trying to cover rent, child care, food, groceries, the whole nine yards on one budget is really hard,” Norelli told KDVR.
This is why she was unable to afford the cost to replace the expired tags on her car. However, not paying this expense would present another cost… the cost of a ticket.
“Literally around the corner from work, [I] got pulled over,” Norelli told News 10. “My tags were expired. I knew I why I was being pulled over.”
When the officer asked her why her tags were expired, Norelli explained that she was a single parent with two children who were under the age of 5 and that it was hard to keep up with expenses.
The officer wrote her a ticket and Norelli headed back to work.
“Got to work, was pretty much in tears about the ticket,” said Norelli.
But a little while later those tears dried up when two officers showed up to her job with a bag of groceries for her.
“Someone just did something they did not have to do, they did not have to go out of their way, they could of just left me with a ticket,” Norelli said. “That’s really amazing.”
She sent a thank you note to the police department which ended up circulating around the department. A little while later an anonymous person donated money to pay for the ticket.
“Obviously, police officers are human as well and sometimes we have stories that just tug at our heart strings as well,” Greenwood Village Commander Eric Schmitt told News 10.
Some of the other police officers decided to pool some money together to buy her more groceries, a Starbucks gift card and a stuffed animal for her son. Norelli said she as completely stunned by the kind gesture and thankful for all the help the officers offered her family. Learn more about the story in the video below.
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