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March 3, 2004, 9:19AM Traffic stop yields $1 million stashed in truck By S.K. BARDWELL Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Law officers seized about $1 million in cash found in a hidden compartment in a tractor-trailer rig pulled over for a routine traffic stop this morning. The truck was stopped about 4 a.m. on the southbound lanes of U.S. 59 near Bissonnet by Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies. The deputies said they became suspicious when the driver's description of where he had been and where he was going kept changing. Drug-sniffing dogs were brought to the scene and found a hidden...