KY: police find $1425 in quarters from thieves (huh?!)

(CNN) – A chunk of change, a handful of suspects… and a whole heap of trouble.

Authorities in Kentucky recovered nearly 15-hundred dollars in quarters they say were stolen from coin-operated air pumps.

Five people are facing charges — in a spate of air-pump robberies going back months.

The coin caper came to an end Sunday – when police say they saw a man taking money from a gas station air machine.

Officers say when they pulled the man and his girlfriend over — ten dollars in quarters fell out of the man’s lap.

A vehicle search turned up hundreds more dollars in change — plus a stolen license plate and tools.

The ensuing investigation led authorities to charge the three additional suspects.