The owner of a tin can containing more than $10,000 that sat for four days on a Kmart service counter in Iowa has claimed the treasure.

Authorities say Joe Heithoff may have been having a reaction to medication Nov. 29 when he inadvertently left a red tin can with $10,380 on the store's customer service counter.

The can sat on the counter for four days before employees opened it the following Thursday. Police took the can into custody that Friday for safe-keeping.

Heithoff's wife, Margaret, called police the next Tuesday to claim the missing money.

Des Moines Police Detective Scott Anderson says Margaret Heithoff had heard someone talking about the found can on the radio and contacted them.

Anderson says she proved ownership by correctly describing several items that were in the can along with the money.

Source: The Des Moines Register, http://www.desmoinesregister.com

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