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GWB Bridge Stop Yields $498,800, Money Laundering Arrest

FORT LEE, N.J. -- Port Authority police found nearly $500,000 in cash in an SUV stopped on the George Washington Bridge and arrested the driver, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice.

Port Authority police.

Port Authority police.

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Arnold Isaac Mercado, of North 2nd Street in Philadelphia was charged with money laundering after authority police pulled him over for a traffic violation on the lower level of the bridge's New Jersey side in Fort Lee just before 5 p.m. Sunday.

Inside the white Buick SUV, they found $498,800, a source told Daily Voice.

Mercado was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail on money laundering charges.

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