$12,000 Tip? Waitress turns it in, cops claim it's drug money

(CBS/AP) MOORHEAD, Minn. - A western Minnesota waitress says $12,000 that police call drug money is actually a tip left for her by a diner - and she's suing to claim the stash of cash.

Stacy Knutson has filed a lawsuit in Clay County District Court saying a customer left a takeout box from another restaurant at her table at the Fryn' Pan in Moorhead. Knutson says she followed the customer to her car but that she told Knutson to keep the box.

Later she discovered it contained rolls of cash.

Knutson says she called police even though she has five children and really needs the money.

Officers told her to wait 90 days in case someone claimed the money. However, police eventually told her the cash smelled of marijuana, and is being held in a drug investigation.

That doesn't smell right to the waitress who lucked into the cash.