SAN ANTONIO -- Rush hour drivers on the city's north side experienced a fortuitous event when a driver allegedly being chased by police tossed a box of money outside their car.

Police said about $100,000 in cash was tossed from a vehicle about 3:15 p.m. near North Star Mall by San Pedro Avenue on Loop 410, and people were stopping their cars on the highway to pick up the loose cash.

Drug enforcement agents, along with San Antonio police, were working on a sting of a suspected drug dealer, according to San Antonio police spokesman Sgt. Gabe Trevino, when the driver took off, starting a chase. When the driver neared the entrance to Loop 410 from the access road near North Star Mall, somebody inside the vehicle threw a box containing cash outside the window.

The chase was immediately called off by a SAPD sergeant for safety reasons, Trevino said, but undercover DEA agents continued to follow the driver, who struck two vehicles near the intersection of Broadway and Wetmore roads. The driver left the vehicle and was immediately arrested by DEA agents, Trevino said. Nobody was injured in the two collisions, Trevino said.

People who stopped to pick up the cash are being asked to turn in any money they may have picked up, Trevino said, as the money is marked and would be easily identified as soon as it was spent. The money is considered evidence in a federal drug case and any attempt to use the cash is a federal offense, Trevino said. Anybody who picked up the money is asked to contact the DEA at 210-442-5600.

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