{"id":410556,"date":"2026-07-24T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:29:27","slug":"california-man-arrested-in-monroe-county-for-allegedly-trafficking-drugs-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410556\/","title":{"rendered":"California man arrested in Monroe County for allegedly trafficking drugs and money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hn6wlewxkaawdyf-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ERIE TWP, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; A man from California was arrested near the Michigan-Ohio border after a traffic stop revealed tons of drugs and sealed cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Michiga State Police (MSP) say on Monday at around 7:15 p.m., a trooper pulled over a tractor-trailer after it passed an I-75 weigh station near Erie Township in Monroe County. The driver, a 25-year-old man from Los Angeles, agreed for his truck to be searched, according to MSP.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">During the search, troopers say they discovered vacuum-sealed bills in the truck&#8217;s sleeper berth, leading to the officer believing the cash was connected to drug trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The tractor-trailer was then taken to the weigh station where detectives with the Monroe Area Narcotics Team and Investigative Services began to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the search led to the discovery of 97 kilograms of processed marijuana and $346,000 in U.S. currency, both vacuum-sealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hn6wl44w0ai3wjd-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The truck was traveling from California to New Jersey at the time of the stop.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man was taken to jail possible charges may be made.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> Watch FOX 2 Detroit LIVE:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 2 used information from Michigan State Police in this report.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/monroe-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monroe County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ERIE TWP, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; A man from California was arrested near the Michigan-Ohio border after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2042,249,60846,100,1181],"class_list":["post-410556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-mi","tag-monroe-county","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}