Putting service on a found iphone? - 2

So at my work there was an iphone in the lost and found and our policy is if something is not claimed within 2 weeks, one of the workers can claim it. A month passes, and no one claims it so i claim it and have been using it for just apps and Wi-Fi, and am thinking i want to put service on it. If i went to the verizon store and explained it to them do you think i could get service put on it? I want to add that i'm with VERIZON and that it is a VERIZON iphone as well

Added (1). ok its been over a year so i doubt they will try and take it back to the owner…

and yeah that is the company policy i would think that someone would come back for it and after a month nobody did so they obviously didn't care that much for it…

The phone has probably been reported as stolen and it's MEID has been disabled. Further, Verizon can use the MEID to identify the owner of the phone and they may take the phone back and return the phone to it's original owner. Seriously. When the phone appeared in the lost and found, How hard was it to take the phone to a Verizon store and ask that it be returned to it's owner?