Police conduct traffic stop and discover nearly $1 million hidden in the vehicle’s tires

You can file this story under things you don’t hear every day.

Police in Robstown, Texas were in for a surprise when they recently pulled over a vehicle belonging to a suspected drug trafficker.

According to a Facebook post from the Robstown Police Department, the DEA was leading an investigation in conjunction with the Robstown Police Department.

Their investigation resulted in a traffic stop of a suspected drug trafficker. During the stop, police discovered approximately $1 million in cash hidden in the tires of the suspect’s vehicle.

An investigation headed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Robstown Police Department, resulted in an…

Posted by Robstown Police Department on Monday, September 21, 2020

This is certainly not the first time police have discovered an exorbitant amount of cash stashed away in a car.

In 2016, police in Mississippi $1 million in cash hidden in all four doors of a rental car after they pulled the vehicle over and asked the occupants if they could conduct a search.

And in 2018, police in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana discovered $370,000 hidden in a secret compartment of a vehicle that had been pulled over. The cash was suspected drug money.

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