Oct 15, 2019

Federal prosecutors want to keep cash seized during I-70 drug bust

Posted Oct 15, 2019 11:00 PM

Photo courtesy Kansas Highway Patrol


WABAUNSEE COUNTY, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors want to keep $180,000 in suspected drug money that was found during a Kansas traffic stop.


Court records say the money was uncovered in July when a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper pulled over a pickup truck on Interstate 70 in Wabaunsee County for a traffic violation.


The driver said he was traveling from Chicago to Denver to visit his sick mother, but a vehicle search turned up seven bundles of cash wrapped in duct tape. Documents say the driver then told law enforcement that he was being paid to take the money to a Denver hotel. A drug dog detected the odor of controlled substances coming from the currency. Prosecutors filed last week for the cash to be forfeited to the government.