Posted on 05/05/2020 7:22:26 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Nearly $1 million in cash was dumped on a Central California road during a police chase that ended with the arrests of two New York men who apparently planned to buy marijuana with the money, the California Highway Patrol said.
Frank Capraro, 23, and Desmond McDay, 25, both of Medford, were arrested Friday evening, the Merced Sun-Star reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether they had obtained lawyers.
The chase began shortly before 6:30 p.m. when a CHP officer tried to stop one of three black SUVs that appeared to be traveling together on Interstate 5 south of Los Banos in Merced County, authorities said.
During the chase, one SUV straddled lanes to block the patrol car, which maneuvered around it and kept chasing the first car, a Chevrolet Suburban.
The Suburban stopped on the shoulder of the road at one point and the driver got out, dumped two cardboard boxes and then took off again before finally stopping for good, the CHP said.
The driver of the Suburban and a second SUV that was stopped in traffic were both taken into custody but the SUV that had tried to block the officer escaped, authorities said.
The cardboard boxes contained $915,000 in cash, and a police dog alerted to the odor of drugs on the money, authorities said.
Officers also found walkie-talkies that the drivers apparently had been using to communicate during the chase, the CHP said.
Sounds like the blocking SUVs didn’t do their job.
Actually, there are cops who got busted for stealing drugs from the evidence locker...
Exhibit one: French Connection case.
About 1975 a drug dealer sensed the coppers and tossed the money off the Cicero ave bridge over the Eisenhower expressway.
I was stuck in the resulting jam for hours.
Coworkers that were ahead of me saw hundreds of ‘treasure hunters’ running along the embankment.
LMBO —
NEVER mix business with pleasure...
This story did remind me of an incident in 1981 or 82... A light plane that crash landed about a mile north of the Mexican Border alongside the 805 freeway. The crew manged to walk away (actually all the witnesses said the RAN away), but the plane had broken open exposing a cargo of large bales of a green leafy substance...
The clean up crews had a pretty light night after the passers by got their sticky fingers on the cargo.
They were arrested for littering.
The thing is they will be release, no matter the crime. No punishment either. Calif protects criminals.
$1,000,000 - $915,000 = $85,000
What happened to the other $85 grand
(btw, is “large” equal to “grand”?)
Could it be written “$85 large” )
Handling charges.
“The cardboard boxes contained $915,000 in cash,”
Did we say 915,000? Sorry, that was a mistake. All we found was a 20 dollar bill.
“Ya know … this stuff wouldn’t happen if marijuana were legal …”
It’s not legal in NY and many other states that are still idiotically attempting prohibition of a plant. Most likely that is where it was headed.
We also have banks refusing to accept cannabis money so instead of checks or wiring money, you require cars with armed men for every wholesale transaction even if 100% legal in that state.
Once legitimate tested product is sold everywhere in legal stores and not taxed to death, most people will have no reason to buy illegally from criminals.
Same way that outlawing liquor immediately created profit potential that grew violent criminal enterprises in every city. Prohibition pretty much created the whole idea of organized “gangsters” in the USA and gave us massive crime families that STILL hold power today.
One would think so.
Cops always have the best dope: Dealer’s adage/
Yup - heavily regulated and heavily taxed. CA could have rumrunners back if it were that foolish with liquor policy.
Back in the early '90s a secretary in my office, who by then was a married mother, told me that in the '70s she dated DEA agents because they ALWAYS had the best coke...
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