Cops catch speeder transporting $200,000 and drugs
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Speeding down your country’s main highway at 1pm in the afternoon is never a good idea, but that’s especially true when you’re in the process of committing a major crime.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol last week pulled over a 2017 Dodge Durango going 93 mph in a 62 mph zone on the Trans-Canada Highway in Carberry, but they didn’t just end up writing a speeding ticket.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Along with its three occupants, the cops found marijuana and $200,000 in Canadian cash that was apparently drug money, the Winnipeg Free-Press reports.
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The three men, two from nearby Winnipeg and one from British Columbia, were charged with various drug-related violations and the possession of proceeds of a crime over $5,000. The investigation continues.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Proceeds gained from criminal acts have no safe passage in Manitoba as we will enforce the laws to the fullest extent," Manitoba traffic enforcement chief Inspector Ed Moreland warned.