Woman rewarded for returning armored car company's lost loot

WERNERSVILLE, Pa. -- A woman who found $20,000 in cash at a convenience store last month is getting a $500 reward from the armored car company that lost it.

Joi Lyn Honer found the stack of $20 bills by a cash machine in Brigantine, N.J., over Labor Day weekend and turned the money over to police.

"I'm grateful," she told The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday. "I didn't do it for the reward, but I think I have $500 that I didn't have three days ago, and that's really helpful to me."

News of the reward arrived in the form of a letter from Loomis, the armored car company. Honer said she has no regrets.

"If I didn't know all this was going to happen, I would still do the exact same thing," she said.

Last week, a sanitation worker in St. Petersburg, Fla., found a plastic bag on the road that contained $65,000 after first mistaking the bag for a turtle. That money had apparently fallen from a Loomis armored car a half-hour earlier.

A message left with a Loomis spokesman was not immediately returned Saturday.