A Million dollars in cash found on routine traffic stop near Anahuac

[CardinalBacker]

Since they do a suspicious activity report any time you have a cash transaction over $10k, this guy should have no problem identifying where all of his cash originated.... if he did so legally. 

 

ALSO, I've always heard that if the vehicle was stopped just outside Walden Road on I10 (as most are), that's a sting.  A bad guy already told the police who was coming, what they were driving, and what they were carrying.  That's just the safest spot for a controlled stop in Jeffco.

 

Any truth to that rumor, TVC?

[WOSdrummer99]

31 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

ALSO, I've always heard that if the vehicle was stopped just outside Walden Road on I10 (as most are), that's a sting.  A bad guy already told the police who was coming, what they were driving, and what they were carrying.  That's just the safest spot for a controlled stop in Jeffco.

I've heard the same thing. But that's only if you make through the anahuac area.

"I-10, I'mma win if I make it back (uh!)
Gotta take it slow, through that Anahuac" -Pimp C

Same thing crossing over neches, rose city was a trap house. What blows my mind is that it's always a "routine traffic stop." If I had $888,500... my vehicle and my driving would be absolutely perfect.

Bet

[thetragichippy]

5 minutes ago, WOSdrummer99 said:

Same thing crossing over neches, rose city was a trap house. What blows my mind is that it's always a "routine traffic stop." If I had $888,500... my vehicle and my driving would be absolutely perfect.

My thoughts exactly.....when I hear about the huge bust and they were pulled over for a taillight out.....I mean, are you really THAT dumb, had that bad of luck, or was that an excuse......

according to TVC, these are not tips

[AggiesAreWe]

You would think those folks would take a different route since knowing this was a trap area.

90, 105, 59

[CardinalBacker]

1 hour ago, WOSdrummer99 said:

I've heard the same thing. But that's only if you make through the anahuac area.

"I-10, I'mma win if I make it back (uh!)
Gotta take it slow, through that Anahuac" -Pimp C

Same thing crossing over neches, rose city was a trap house. What blows my mind is that it's always a "routine traffic stop." If I had $888,500... my vehicle and my driving would be absolutely perfect.

Bet

I have a friend that was buying coke in Houston and taking it to Chicago and tripling his money in the early 90s.  Just a lucrative road trip.  His scheme was that he owned a wrecker and would literally drag a car up there and leave it behind.  They're not going to stop a wrecker hauling a junker, right? Wrong.  

One day he picks up a hitchhiker and THEN gets pulled over for speeding.  The cop has them both out of the truck and eventually asks if they have any contraband.... and this hitchhiker starts kicking around at the ground and stammers that he actually has some week in his backpack.  My friend is pretty quick on his feet so he starts yelling at the hitchhiker and eventually jumps on him.  "Do you know what they're going to do to me?  I gave you a ride and now I'm going to jail with you!!!"  The cop gets them separated and my buddy jumps on the hitchhiker again and the cop is like "Boy, you need to get in that truck and get on down the road.... I've got this under control."  So the hitchhiker was in custody when my buddy drove off with the real weight stowed in that car he was towing.

 

He did make it to the pen eventually, btw.  So I guess it has a happy ending.

 

[tvc184]

3 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

Since they do a suspicious activity report any time you have a cash transaction over $10k, this guy should have no problem identifying where all of his cash originated.... if he did so legally. 

 

ALSO, I've always heard that if the vehicle was stopped just outside Walden Road on I10 (as most are), that's a sting.  A bad guy already told the police who was coming, what they were driving, and what they were carrying.  That's just the safest spot for a controlled stop in Jeffco.

 

Any truth to that rumor, TVC?

I doubt it but there might be a very smidgen of the truth to it. I don’t think there are that many confidential informants to routinely justify stopping very many people at that location. What likely happens is that there are officers out on the highway looking for drugs. About 99% of the time that is what they are doing which is profiling. If they happen to get a tip from a confidential informant or a police officer from another agency for example, certainly they would look for that vehicle. That would have to be some very serious information on what vehicle, when, etc. It just does not come that often. The reason that you might see a lot of vehicle stops in that area is because that is where the officers set up. When I worked highway introduction there were two or three spots we worked and that was it. Sometimes those locations are strategic such as near where someone can get off according to head to how we were profiling. 

[tvc184]

1 hour ago, CardinalBacker said:

I have a friend that was buying coke in Houston and taking it to Chicago and tripling his money in the early 90s.  Just a lucrative road trip.  His scheme was that he owned a wrecker and would literally drag a car up there and leave it behind.  They're not going to stop a wrecker hauling a junker, right? Wrong.  

One day he picks up a hitchhiker and THEN gets pulled over for speeding.  The cop has them both out of the truck and eventually asks if they have any contraband.... and this hitchhiker starts kicking around at the ground and stammers that he actually has some week in his backpack.  My friend is pretty quick on his feet so he starts yelling at the hitchhiker and eventually jumps on him.  "Do you know what they're going to do to me?  I gave you a ride and now I'm going to jail with you!!!"  The cop gets them separated and my buddy jumps on the hitchhiker again and the cop is like "Boy, you need to get in that truck and get on down the road.... I've got this under control."  So the hitchhiker was in custody when my buddy drove off with the real weight stowed in that car he was towing.

 

He did make it to the pen eventually, btw.  So I guess it has a happy ending.

 

When I worked interdiction about 25 years ago we looked for just such a vehicles. One of the bigger arrests in this area a couple of friends of mine made, there’s a couple of good ol’ boys heading to the lake towing a bass boat… Except the bass boat had more than fishing tackle.  Another was a grandmother just driving down the highway.

That is one of the first things I learned. It is like looking for a child molester or a murderer. What do they look like? If they were easy to spot then we would have nearly a 100% clearance rate. The grandmother, a couple of rednecks heading home from a duck hunting trip, wreckers, 18 wheelers, buses, a man and his wife heading for vacation,… What does a drug dealer look like?

[CardinalBacker]

39 minutes ago, tvc184 said:

When I worked interdiction about 25 years ago we looked for just such a vehicles. One of the bigger arrests in this area a couple of friends of mine made, there’s a couple of good ol’ boys heading to the lake towing a bass boat… Except the bass boat had more than fishing tackle.  Another was a grandmother just driving down the highway.

That is one of the first things I learned. It is like looking for a child molester or a murderer. What do they look like? If they were easy to spot then we would have nearly a 100% clearance rate. The grandmother, a couple of rednecks heading home from a duck hunting trip, wreckers, 18 wheelers, buses, a man and his wife heading for vacation,… What does a drug dealer look like?

I read an article a few years back about a crew that had bought a legit van and painted it to exactly match a UPS van.  They got caught because a police officer noticed that the guy driving was a straight up vato.... flannel shirt, bandana, etc.... slouched down in the seat instead of wearing a fake uniform. 

[tvc184]

4 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

I read an article a few years back about a crew that had bought a legit van and painted it to exactly match a UPS van.  They got caught because a police officer noticed that the guy driving was a straight up vato.... flannel shirt, bandana, etc.... slouched down in the seat instead of wearing a fake uniform. 

In south Texas they found a fake TXDOT truck loaded. 

[tvc184]

4 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

I read an article a few years back about a crew that had bought a legit van and painted it to exactly match a UPS van.  They got caught because a police officer noticed that the guy driving was a straight up vato.... flannel shirt, bandana, etc.... slouched down in the seat instead of wearing a fake uniform. 

Here is an article from 7 years ago that said they have stopped at least 14 fake government vehicles with contraband. In that story one school bus had over a ton. I read a story of another school but with 4.5 tons. 
 

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[tvc184]

We got a tip so it wasn’t random but I stopped I think it was a Nissan Altima with about 5 kilos of cocaine.  We were actually looking for a different vehicle from a tip and this one was in the area so I stopped it.