Men found with $240K in cash on Mexico-bound bus in Hidalgo

HIDALGO — An apparent attempt for a young man to take his father’s money to build a house for his mom ended at the U.S.-Mexico border early Sunday morning. 

Customs officers said they found two men with more than $240,000 in wads of cash on a Mexico-bound bus early Sunday morning. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working southbound inspections at the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge asked half the passengers to get off a Tornado commercial bus headed for Mexico, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in McAllen.

As the passengers disembarked, an officer noticed 21-year-old Fabian Reyna had several bundles of money sticking out from his pocket. A pat-down of his body uncovered 13 bundles of cash that totaled $130,000, according to the complaint. 

A second passenger on the bus appeared to be nervous, officers said. Raul Medina, 26, was found with 11 bundles of cash that totaled $110,000 in the seat in front of him.MORE