Powell v. Four Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($4,600.00) U.S. Currency

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CARL B. JONES, Judge:

Late in the evening of February 14, 1994, Martin and Robyn Hoel and their children, while driving home from a Valentine’s Day dinner, came upon what they thought was money scattered along a Logan County road. The Hoels knew friends who lived nearby, and quickly drove there; and, while Mrs. Hoel and the other children stayed behind, *154and Mrs. Hoel contacted the authorities, Mr. Hoel and his eldest son drove back to where they had seen the money.

Shortly thereafter, a deputy sheriff from Logan County arrived on the scene, and Mrs. Hoel returned there. Mr.…