Turner & Hooch may be the No. 1 dog and human detective team in the movies, but locally, it’s Pam Hawley and her chocolate Labrador, Lilly.

Hawley said her four-legged friend has an uncanny knack for finding other people’s money.

“He’s got a real good nose,” Hawley said. “He would make a good police dog. Who knows, maybe he comes from a line of police dogs.”

Lilly’s latest find occurred just last week during her morning “poop walk” on Tide Mill Road.

“It was raining that day and I remember walking up the road, and all of sudden Lilly stopped and began sniffing something,” Hawley said. “I pulled her leash to see what it was and it turned out to be a man’s wallet.”

But Hawley said she wasn’t surprised about her dog’s “find,” because this wasn’t the first time Lilly has stumbled upon the “Benjamins.” Two years ago, her pooch sniffed out a box that contained $300 at the local skateboard park.

And while her dog likes to find money, Hawley said she’s stuck with finding who it belongs to.

As it turned out, the wallet belonged to young man in Brentwood who was visiting one of Hawley’s neighbors.

Hawley said she tracked him down using his license and the telephone book.

“His dad picked up the phone, and I told him what happened,” Hawley said. “I left my number and the young man called me back.”

When the man came to pick up the wallet, he didn’t bring a treat for Lilly, but did want to reward Hawley.

“He wanted to give me $20,” she said. “I said no. I was just glad that he got his money back. He was a young guy, and that was probably a lot of money for him.”

Hawley said it took much longer trying to find the rightful owner of the shoe box that contained $300. At the time, she contacted both North Hampton and Hampton police.

She also contacted the Hampton Parks and Recreation Department, because she believed the box might have belonged to one of the local sports teams, because on its cover was written, “U-11-Boys.”

But it wasn’t until she put an ad in the paper that the rightful owner came forward.

“She was so grateful,” Hawley said. “It was a lacrosse mom and the money was supposed to go to pay officials.”

While some people may just say “finders keepers, losers weepers,” Hawley said she returns the money because it’s the “Christian thing to do.”

Hawley remembers an incident several years ago when she lost her pocketbook. Just as she was about to cancel all her credit cards, a man who found her pocketbook knocked on her door to return it.