{"id":157656,"date":"2025-09-21T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:04:07","slug":"man-charged-after-police-say-they-found-1-million-in-a-cardboard-box-in-his-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157656\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after police say they found $1 million in a cardboard box in his vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A northern Tasmanian man has been charged after police say they found about $1 million in cash in a cardboard box in his vehicle on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tasmania Police said officers were conducting a random breath test in Triabunna on the state&#8217;s east coast about 8:30pm when they found the cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver, a 57-year-old man from the Launceston suburb of Mayfield, was arrested and later charged with dealing with property suspected of being the proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Police will allege the cash is profits from the sale of illicit drugs in Tasmania,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This incident highlights the critical role frontline officers play in disrupting criminal networks and protecting the Tasmanian community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A northern Tasmanian man has been charged after police say they found about $1 million in cash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,104920,104919,44,1158,47801,7981,48214,104918],"class_list":["post-157656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breath-test","tag-million-dollars","tag-news","tag-police","tag-proceeds-of-crime","tag-random-breath-test","tag-tasmania-police","tag-triabunna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}