I-20 traffic stop yields $120K in cash, gold tied to Longview elder fraud scam

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) – A man was arrested Tuesday after he was found to have $120,000 in cash and gold he had gotten from a Longview woman as part of a scam, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

An arrest affidavit said Anuj Ashishbhai Modi, 24, of Arlington was driving on Interstate 20 when a DPS trooper pulled him over for following too closely behind a semi-truck.

The affidavit said the trooper noticed Modi was acting nervously, so the trooper asked Modi to exit his vehicle and sit in the front passenger seat of his patrol car while the he wrote up a warning…

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