Two Claims Filed For Backyard $150,000
October 24, 2012 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (UPI) — An Illinois man the $150,000 in cash he found in his garden last year generated two competing claims for the money.
Wayne Sabaj, who discovered the cash in his McHenry County broccoli garden last year, said the cash would have become his if no one had claimed it by Oct. 1, but authorities said a Naperville liquor store robbed of about $150,000 in 2010 filed a petition to claim the money, as did Sabaj’s 87-year-old neighbor, WGN-TV, Chicago, reported Wednesday.
Both claims were filed two days before the deadline, authorities said.
Lawyers for Sabaj’s neighbor, Dolores Johnson, said the woman suffers from memory problems and does not remember what happened to the money she has been collecting for several years. Johnson’s daughter said she believes her mother threw the cash into Sabaj’s yard.
Robert Burke, Sabaj’s attorney, said he believes the cash was drug money that fell from a sea plane spotted over the Fox River shortly before his client made the discovery.
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