Thread: AZ: $3.1 million discovered in truck

$3.1 million discovered in truck
by Colton Shone/News-Talk 92.3 KTAR (November 13th, 2009 @ 4:52pm)

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NEW RIVER, Ariz. - DPS officers found $3.1 million in boxes loaded in a semi-truck north of the Valley Friday.

DPS said an officer pulled the truck over for an equipment violation on southbound I-17 near New River.

"The officer, after stopping the driver and co-driver of the commercial vehicle, noticed they were very nervous, noticed some signs and indicators of criminal activity," said DPS officer Robert Bailey.

Bailey said the driver consented to a search where officers found four large boxes that did not match the rest of the load.

"In the boxes were about 61 vacuum-sealed packages of U.S. currency," Bailey said.

After the money was discovered the driver denied knowing anything about it. He has been released while the investigation continues.

In the meantime, Bailey said confiscating the money is a real blow to whoever it was meant to go to.

"This cripples the cartels, the drug cartels which is where we believe this was going to," he said.

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After the money was discovered the driver denied knowing anything about it. He has been released while the investigation continues.

Well, they will never see him again! Especially if the drug cartels get a hold of him first.