What would you do????

Fort Wayne woman finds $100,000 on front porch

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A single, Fort Wayne mother found up to $100,000 on her front porch Tuesday morning (Sept. 9th). She immediately turned it over to police.

The woman who found the money between her front door and her storm door, does not want her name released. She talked exclusively with NewsChannel 15's Megan Stembol about what she found. She said at first she thought it was a loaf of banana nut bread left for her by her neighbor.

"I took a razor and sliced it, and black stuff started coming out," the 29-year old said. "It was black. It was oozy and it smelled."

When police wiped away the black substance, what was in the tightly bound package became very clear.

"He said, 'this is money'," the woman recounted, saying one officer guessed it could be up to $100,000.

The way it was wrapped lead vice and narcotics officers to believe it could be drug money. Police Officer Michael Joyner says motor oil or grease is often used in transported money to cover up it's scent, or the scent of drugs on it.

Why someone left it on an apartment doorstep, in the 600 block of Lawton Place though is a mystery.

Officers took the bundle into custody, and are investigating to see who it could belong to. Police say the woman did the right thing.

"You don't know whose money it is," said Joyner. "If it is, in fact, drug money, are they going to come looking for it...?"

The money is now in the evidence room at the Fort Wayne Police Department. Eventually it will be turned over to the Allen County general fund, if police can't figure out who its rightful owner is.