Man pulled over on I-75 with $15,000 tells Georgia cop he got the cash at Walmart
One afternoon last month, a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a Chevy Malibu on Interstate 75 north of Forsyth because the deputy’s in-car computer showed that the car belonged to a wanted man.
There were five people inside the car, including the driver, 39, of Illinois, who was for reasons not noted in the deputy’s report wanted in Walton County. There was said to be an “odor of marijuana” coming from the car. Inside the car, cops said they found about an ounce and a half of weed and a Glock 19 handgun.
The report said the deputy “also discovered a large amount of cash” in a bag on the front floorboard. A woman in the car said the weed belonged to her. The driver said the cash, some $15,000, belonged to him.
“I asked (the driver) why he had the cash, to which he stated he was going to ‘shoot a rap video’ in Illinois,” the deputy’s report of the July 3 encounter said. “I asked (the driver) where he got the case from, to which he stated he ‘gets cash back from Walmart when he purchases items.’ (He) stated he would get $100 in cash back every time he went to Walmart.”
The driver said he works in a warehouse and that he also received “a large amount of money from back pay from being unemployed,” the report added. The cash was seized and the driver, who also said he had recently been released from prison, was jailed on a gun-possession charge and for driving with a suspended license.
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