EL PASO, Texas -- If you found a bag with $120,000, would you keep it? East El Paso resident, Letty Armendariz was faced with that difficult decision recently.

"So I'm pulling up to the ATM, and right out here I noticed what appeared to be a plastic bag so I simply drove over it," said Armendariz as she drove through the ATM and reenacted what happened to her Friday morning.

"As I'm looking through my rearview mirror, I realized that it wasn't a plastic bag. It was shaped very differently, and there was definitely something solid in there," Armendariz said. She said she thought she had driven over a rock and that it might have scratched the bottom of her low-riding truck.

Little did Armendariz know, she had literally hit the jackpot outside the Governmental Employees Credit Union ATM on Saul Kleinfield and Montwood Drive.

"As I reached the bag, I realized it was a bag of money from the bank. There was a tag that indicated $120,000 on it. So, I'm assuming that's the amount that was inside," said Armendariz.

And you won't believe what she did next, she turned it in.

"Yes, I did. I didn't think twice about it. I didn't hesitate. I automatically called law enforcement. I did call my husband and told him, 'You're not going to believe what just happened,'" she said.

"When she said money, I thought $10, $15, but the amount of money just kind of floored me, and initially I said, 'Wow!'" said Luis Armendariz, who couldn't help but worry that it might have been a set up.

"I said, 'You did the right thing,'" he said.

"I just felt somebody dropped it, and they were going to be in trouble as a result of it," said she said.

Keeping the money could've meant early retirement, but Armendariz said she has no regrets, and would do the same thing if she had to do it again.

"There are a lot of things you could do with $120,000, but it's not the right thing to do if it doesn't belong to you," said Armendariz.

Armendariz is now hoping the person who lost the money won't lose their job over it.

KFOX contacted GECU to know if they money belongs to them, but executives could only said it was under investigation.

Armendariz's good deed could pay off. The rightful owner has 30 days to claim the money, or police hands it back to her.

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