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Tijuana Municipal Police officers seized 587,550 dollars in cash from a woman and a man of Russian origin, who were traveling in a vehicle together with another subject from the state of Sinaloa, in the Libertad neighborhood.
The arrest of the three people was made following a citizen’s report about the existence of armed persons, municipal police officers went to José María Larroque Avenue and Amistad Street in the Libertad neighborhood, where they detained the crew members of a white Toyota Sienna, which matched the description in the report.
Andrei “N”, 48, and Olga “N”, 48, both born in Russia, as well as Francisco Javier “N”, 28, of Mexican origin, got out of the vehicle; when the car was searched, a bag containing 587,550 dollars in cash, more than half a million dollars, was found.
The three detainees were handed over to the federal authorities along with the cash and the vehicle in which they were traveling, in order to carry out the corresponding investigations.
Libertad Neighborhood 
Tijuana, Baja California