March 11, 2004  Interstate 81, Tennessee
State Trooper seize $482,215 from a tractor trailer

THP Troopers working at the I-81 Greene County Scale Complex near Bulls Gap, Tennessee, made a random truck stop and obtained consent to search a tractor-trailer. The search revealed approximately $482,215 in U.S. currency inside the sleeping compartment. A subsequent series of canine drug detection unit searches met with positive results.

Source: Tennessee Department of Safety