Feds seize $200,000 in Southern Oregon traffic stop By Nick Morgan, Mail Tribune
Published: January 8, 2021, 8:37am
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MEDFORD, Ore. Federal prosecutors are seeking to take possession of more than $200,000 found inside a rented van during a traffic stop even though no criminal charges have been filed against anyone in the case.
Oregon State Police troopers say they found $200,470 in cash during a July 29 traffic stop on westbound Highway 140 near Bly, according to an affidavit filed by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations field officer in U.S. District Court in Medford late last month.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office claims the money was going to be used to buy marijuana in the Medford area to be sold on the black market in the driver’s home state of New Jersey.
TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. â Two Kingston residents are facing charges after they were found with approximately 200 bags of heroin and fentanyl during a traffic stop, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) said.
Jason T. Pease, 29, and Jennifer Krom, 39, were both arrested during a traffic stop on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in the Town of Ulster after an investigation into alleged sales and trafficking of heroin and fentanyl in northern Ulster County, authorities said. The approximately 200 bags of drugs were found on them both and hidden in the vehicle, they added.
Pease and Krom were charged with the felonies of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to an URGENT press release. It also said that Krom was also charged with tampering with physical evidence, a felony, and that Pease was additionally charged with criminal impersonation for providing the identity of another pers