More than $743,000 Seized in Traffic Stop

Driver from Brownsville

POSTED: 12:26 PM CDT Apr 16, 2015

WESLACO -A Brownsville man is behind bars in Kleberg County on money laundering charges.

DPS troopers stopped 23-year-old Miguel Guadalupe Medrano Wednesday morning, as he was heading south on Highway 77. During the traffic stop, troopers seized 67 bundles of U.S. currency.

The money was hidden in rear panel of the vehicle. It totaled more than $743,000.

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