High-Tech Hidden Compartment Reveals $11K In Dirty Money: Police

Mount Vernon NY

08 April, 2022

8:34 AM

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YONKERS, NY — A Yonkers man worked hard to conceal his incriminating cargo, but police found the evidence they were searching for anyway, law enforcement officials said. Pascual Ciriaco was arrested for money laundering in New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed this week. On April 4, an investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Narcotics Task Force discovered that Ciriaco was transporting bulk amounts of currency through Bergen County. Investigators searched Ciriaco's car in Teaneck, New Jersey. The search revealed an electronically operated, after-market hidden compartment containing $11,691 in currency, officials said. Ciriaco was arrested at the scene of the search. He was charged with third-degree money laundering, less than 75 thousand dollars, (N.J.S.A. 2C:21-25a). Ciriaco was released on his own recognizance pending his first appearance in a Hackensack, New Jersey courtroom.