He has tickets worth about $1k each, and first he's going to give them to "some family", and then he's going to give them to you, a random person he's seen at Comi-Con.

You must be the luckiest person in the universe to know these people.

First, this guy wouldn't be selling the tickets. He was going to give them to somebody. And it's not a random encounter. I know the guy (yes, through Comic-Con but not simply through bumping into him or anything) and contacted him ahead of time just in case the opportunity arose. And yes we were very lucky that it did.

Seriously, though, he is a nice guy. And he's offered to accommodate me (if he can) whenever ELITE is running security at events.

Transfer it to checking and pay back each and every person in full that donated a penny. Have them come back on here and verify that you repaid the money.

Edit: removed my theory.

A pair of tickets to some of those events would probably cover all of the dog's medical bills in a charity auction.

Wouldn't you want your tickets going to someone who could sell them to save a poor dog's life?

His sister lives in Los Angeles so it doesn't cost him anything to stay there and drive back and forth to San Diego every day.