Associated Press • September 17, 2010
Atlantic, Ia. — A traffic stop on Interstate Highway 80 in western Iowa has netted more than $100,000 in cash and led to a money laundering charge against a Wisconsin man.
Iowa State Patrol Trooper Tom Clark said a trooper stopped a car near Atlantic on Wednesday and discovered six bundles of cash totaling $134,000 hidden in a false compartment in the dash.
Clark said a small amount of drugs also was found. The driver, Jesse Locke of Milwaukee, Wis., was arrested.
The Cass County sheriff’s office said Locke remained in the county jail on Thursday on $5,000 bond.
The sheriff’s office did not know whether he had an attorney. Clark said I-80 is a drug and cash corridor. He said other traffic stops have turned up $1.5million in cash.