"We taxpayer are paying a lot of money for this and why?" she said.

The wallet

Heinrich found the wallet last July on top of a pump at a Casper gas station. She looked inside and found it belonged to a Colorado man named William McCreary.

She couldn't find him at the station, so Heinrich decided to take the wallet home with her.

"There was cash in it and I wanted to see him get his wallet with everything in it, and as fast as possible, because I knew he was probably headed off on a vacation," she said.

She found McCreary's phone number online, but he wasn't home. She also tried other numbers in the wallet without success.

By this time, McCreary had returned to the gas station looking for the wallet. After he couldn't find it, he contacted police, and Officer Joseph Moody took a report.

The next day, Heinrich called police to ask if anyone had lost a wallet. She spoke with a dispatcher who told her the police knew McCreary's wallet was missing. The dispatcher agreed to contact McCreary and give him Heinrich's phone number.