Following on from a job that police dealt with yesterday (18th December) Police Officers from West Midlands Police (Traffic Unit) stopped a vehicle earlier on today as it travelled along the M6.

The traffic stop was part of a joint operation between the roads policing unit and other specialist departments & teams from within West Midlands Police.

The vehicle was stopped close to Junction 1 on the busy motorway.

As officers searched the vehicle, they found a large holdall that contained approximately £500,000 in cash.

Pictures shared on the @TrafficWMP twitter page revealed the bundles of cash which had been bound together.

A job from yesterday. Joint operation led to a stop on this vehicle on the #M6 near to junction 1. The driver was found with this in a holdall. Roughly £500k in cash. All proceeds of criminal activity. we may have upset some criminals this Christmas #DenyCriminalsUseOfTheRoads pic.twitter.com/M0z5ggNLOQ — WMP Traffic (@Trafficwmp) December 19, 2018

No doubt there is a criminal gang out there somewhere, who will be wondering where their huge stash of cash ended up.

We have heard of some fairly decent hauls of cash being seized, but £500,000 is definitely up there with perhaps the largest haul of cash being found in a car in recent months, if not years.

Hopefully the cash can be ploughed back into the departments which put in the ground work that led to the money being seized.

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