Teen Catches Wallet With $2,000 While Fishing and Finds the Owner to Return it

A Minnesota teenager got a strange catch while fishing this summer. He reeled in a wallet with $2,000 cash.

Fox News reported that after reeling in the expensive find on a 4th of July Lake of the Woods trip, 👤Connor Halsa and his family went through the wallet to find the identification of its owner.

He said, “Everyone started going through it to try to find the dude it belonged to.”

“When we kind of got a general idea of what was inside, we put it in the console of the boat so it didn’t get blown out,” he added.

He noted everyone was determined to find the owner and return his wallet with the money inside. “It wasn’t my money,” he said.

A business card inside the wallet helped Halsa track down the owner. It was the only card and gave information for a cattle rancher named Sherry.

Upon contacting her, the family was directed to the wallet’s owner, who lost it a year ago. 

Iowa resident 👤Jim Denney, 75, and his wife had taken a trip to Lake of the Woods in July of 2022. He noted that the last night of the trip, he realized his wallet was missing when he went to pay his bill. 

“I was devastated. I just didn’t know what the heck to do. There I was, broke. So, the other guys floated me the money to pay up,” he said.