What the heck is going on here?!
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Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal
investigators, WTAE Channel 4's Paul Van Osdol reported.
State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools
for a contractor for whom they worked.
Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, police said.
The guards became suspicious and called police, who pulled the truck over about a mile from the plant.
A state trooper got a warrant to search the vehicle and found a duffel bag, which he said contained $504,230 in mostly small bills.
The driver denied knowing anything about the money or who gave it to him, so the trooper seized it, police said.
The site also has video - a must watch
Anyway to review - over $500k in cash, a multi-state trip to recover some tools, and a nuclear power plant.
This smells *fishy*.
edit- here's another link to an ongoing discussion on this topic
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edit #2 - It gets weirder! No one has claimed the money...
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When security guards at the Beaver Valley Power Station discovered a bag containing thousands of dollars in a tractor-trailer cab, one of the
vehicle's occupants told them his boss planned to use the cash to buy a truck.
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State police were investigating to determine who owns the money and how it got into the tractor-trailer. If no one comes forward to claim legitimate
ownership of the money, police said, they will begin proceedings for forfeit of the cash to the government.
"I wanted to know, why is somebody running around with that amount of money when they're not in a Brink's truck?" said Shippingport police Sgt.
R.N. Davis Jr., who pulled the truck over after it left the power plant in Beaver County.
Edit #3- 2 more sources -
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[edit on 20-4-2006 by negativenihil]