POLICE FIND $5.3 MILLION CASH AMONG FROZEN ROLLS

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Police Find $5.3 Million Cash Among Frozen Rolls

DALLAS (Reuters) - It sure was a lot of bread.
Texas police say they made the state's largest seizure of cash during a traffic stop when troopers pulled over a truck hauling frozen dinner rolls -- and found $5.3 million in bills sealed in plastic wrap.

Two troopers stopped the truck Friday about 100 miles north of the Mexico border on Wednesday near the town of Alice as part of a routine vehicle inspection, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. When the troopers received conflicting stories from those in the truck, the troopers poked into the dinner rolls and found the cash.

One man has been arrested and charged with money laundering, they said. "This is one heck of a bust," said DPS Director Col. Thomas Davis Jr.

State police were busy counting the cash, which will go to law enforcement activities if it was used for illegal activities. But the shippers made it easy for police to ring up a tally by writing the amount in big black numbers of each bundle of cash sealed in plastic wrap.

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Cold, hard, cash. Did I say that?