Money Launderer From Area Had Thousands Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box

An accused money launderer from Westchester was busted in New Jersey with $11,691 in dirty cash stashed in a secret compartment of his car, authorities said.

The cash was stashed in an “electronically operated aftermarket hidden compartment," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
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Jerry DeMarco

04/06/2022 4:30 p.m.

Yonkers resident Pascual Ciriaco, 49, who’s married and unemployed, was taken into custody following the stop in Teaneck, NJ by Narcotic Task Force detectives who’d been tipped off that he was “transporting bulk amounts of currency,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.

Ciriaco had stashed the cash in an “electronically operated aftermarket hidden compartment” in his vehicle, the prosecutor said.

Detectives charged him with money laundering and he was released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, he said.

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