According to Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek, 64-year-old Emundo Rendon has been arrested and charged with money laundering after nearly $200K was found stashed in old toy boxes during a traffic stop on I-10.
The report says that Emundo Rendon was arrested at 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday “after he was initially pulled over for a traffic violation near Flatonia.”
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Three old toy boxes were found to be hiding nearly $200,000 in cash, leading to the arrest of a McAllen man during a traffic stop on I-10, according to Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek. Emundo Rendon, 64, was arrested at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday after he was initially pulled over for a traffic violation near Flatonia.
Deputies said they noticed “several criminal indicators” before receiving consent to search Rendon’s vehicle. That’s when they discovered the three toy boxes inside of a luggage bag. The boxes were seemingly heavier than the toys that should have been in them, according to deputies, leading them to open them and discover several vacuum-sealed bundles of cash inside. The packaging of the cash bundles was consistent “to that of drug trafficking and money laundering organizations,” according to Sheriff Korenek.
Deputies took the money to the bank, and it totaled $199,000.
Rendon was arrested and charged with money laundering greater than $150K, less than $300K, which is a second-degree felony. He was taken to the Dan R. Beck Justice Center.
Here is my problem with this. He wasn’t in the act of committing in crime and they don’t know if he was laundering or not, so how they charge him with a crime?
In the immortal words of Bobby Brown on My Prerogative.
What is this, a blizzard, that I can’t have money in my pocket
And people not talk about me?
This world is a trip; I don’t know what’s goin’ on these days
Got this person over here talkin’ about me, this person
Ay, listen, let me tell you somethin’, it’s my prerogative
I can do what I wanna do
I made this money, you didn’t; right, Ted?
We outta here!
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