State Collects $122,000 from Traffic Stops in Southwest Wyoming

What began as a pair of routine traffic stops in southwest Wyoming last fall and winter has turned into a $122,000 windfall for the state government.

A judge ruled last month that the State of Wyoming can keep $27,000 that troopers seized from a California man in November and $95,000 taken from two Virginia men in January. Uinta County District Court Judge James Kaste found that the money “was knowingly and unlawfully used or intended for use in violation of the Wyoming Controlled Substance Act.”