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Bomb squad blows up box of cash

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LAKE MARY, Fla., May 11 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a suspicious package found outside a church and detonated by a bomb squad turned out to contain more than $2,500 in cash.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office bomb squad said a member of Master's Touch International Church, near Lake Mary, found a 40-pound cardboard box outside of the facility at 11 a.m. Saturday and brought it to a nearby fire station, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.

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The bomb squad was called in and was unable to determine the contents of the box, labeled "For Pastor Nick," with the use of an X-ray.

"It didn't look normal," sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Cannaday said. "That's all we knew."

The box was detonated by the bomb squad and they then discovered it had contained $2,500 to $2,700 in paper money and several rolls of silver dollars.

Cannaday said the U.S. Treasury will replace the damaged money.

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