It’s not every day you get to say you found buried treasure in Florida.

But deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office can claim that after they solved a burglary and recovered nearly $400,000 worth of stolen coins that were buried in a Crestview yard.

Deputies say Stephen Aaron Barnes, 37, of Destin, took the coins from a safe at his mother’s home and buried them in three different locations on the property, deputies wrote in a news release.

The coins were to be part of Barnes’ mother’s divorce settlement, but when the victim went to retrieve the money on Aug. 30, he was unable to get into the safe and had to call a locksmith, deputies wrote. Once the safe was opened, he found the coins missing. A rifle was also gone.

He told investigator he had last seen the items during a visit in November 2017. He added that his estranged wife was to receive the coins – or be given a check for what they were worth. Brenda Barnes told deputies she did not know what happened to the money.

Her son, Stephen Aaron Barnes, was a suspect and later confessed to taking the coins, saying he was mad at the victim for all the suffering he had caused his mother during the couple’s divorce proceedings, deputies wrote. He said he buried the coins in three different locations on the property.

Investigators were able to dig up and retrieve nearly all the boxes of $1 silver coins.

Barnes is charged with grand theft over $100,000.