Nogales, Arizona: two Mexican nationals sentenced prison for money laundering, $400,000 stuffed in detergent boxes

Two Nogales, Sonora men apparently took the term “money laundering” a bit too literally.
Gabriel Lopez Iriarte and Carlos Arredondo Rosas were each sentenced to three-year terms at the Arizona Department of Corrections after they were caught on Interstate 19 with nearly $400,000 in cash stuffed into boxes of laundry detergent. According to court documents, on Jan. 27, a Nogales Police Department officer observed Lopez, 36, and Arredondo, 35, “both acting suspicious or guilty” as they traveled south on I-19 near Kilometer 11 in a silver Chevy Impala. He pulled them over for excessive window tinting. Read Article