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$12,000 Found in Drug Suspect's Buttocks Texas Authorities Want to Seize Bills, Money Orders Nov. 3, 2000 By Richard Zitrin AMARILLO, Texas (APBnews.com) -- Jail officers might have hit the jackpot when they found more than $8,000 in cash and more than $4,000 in money orders hidden in a drug suspect's buttocks, police said. Potter County officials are taking legal steps to seize the hidden money, as well as another $6,000 the suspect had on him when he was arrested earlier this week for possessing marijuana, police Sgt. Randy TenBrink said. Related Stories: Police Shoot Naked Man in Buttocks Officers found the cash and money orders after Carlton Meredith, 32, of Rio Alto, Calif., was charged with smoking dope outside of the downtown bus station Tuesday night, TenBrink said. Smoke alerts passenger Meredith had been on a bus headed from St. Louis to California when he apparently decided to take a break and light a cigar filled with marijuana outside the station, he said. A police officer, responding to a complaint from another bus passenger, drove to the station and smelled an overwhelming aroma of marijuana. He walked up to Meredith, who first tried to hide the marijuana cigar in the palm of his hand before dropping it to the ground and trying to grind it out, TenBrink said. He was arrested and placed in the rear of the patrol car, where he allegedly tried to hide some more marijuana he had on him. The officer found another cigar in the rear seat, he said. $4,000 in his socks The real discovery, however, came later at the Potter County Correction Center when officers performed a strip-search and found $8,050 rolled up in his buttocks, along with $4,200 in postal money orders, TenBrink said. "He just had it pinched between his buttocks," he said. Officers also found $4,090 in his socks and $1,887.19 in one of his pockets, TenBrink said. Authorities have filed a motion to seize the money because they believe it might have been tied to drugs. Meredith told police that he is affiliated with a musical group and that $5,000 of the money came from a show in St. Louis, TenBrink said. He said the other money was savings. Discovery 'not unusual' It is not unusual to find money, drugs or weapons in suspects' buttocks, TenBrink said. "A lot of times we've got to be poking into places we'd rather not, but that's the way police work is," he said. Meredith is facing a maximum of six months in jail for the misdemeanor drug charge, TenBrink said. He is free on $1,500 bond, a jail spokesman said.