A volunteer on beach patrol who was looking for sea turtles, instead found a bag of money — and launched a week-long search to find its owner.

Meanwhile, a homeless man who'd received an inheritance from a relative, was hoping to use the cash to return home to friends and family in Pennsylvania.

The bag, discovered at a Florida bus stop bench, only contained half of his inheritance. A deputy sheriff spotted the other bag and together they contained nearly $10,000.

Police believed it belonged to the same person, but finding him would take some detective work.

A receipt in one of the bags led them to a shopping mall. Security camera footage from one of the stores gave them a picture of who they were looking for — a homeless man police identified as "Joe." But after days of searching, Detective Danny Mursell still couldn't find him.

A week after the money was lost, and while Mursell was working on something else, he just happened to spot Joe drinking coffee and reunited him with his traveling money.

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