70-year-old Cynthia Copley and her 69-year-old husband needed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma and had to move $26,000 worth of gold bars that they'd hidden in a cat litter box.

They asked a neighbor to move the box to a boat on their property.

The storm thankfully missed the couples home, so they thought they were in the clear. Until the discovered that their gold was missing a week later. Their neighbor says he moved it from Panama City to Jacksonville.

Cynthia called the Bay County Sheriff's Office, three months later Corey Lofton is facing grand theft charges.

Read more at TIME.

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