Barrel of cash found at train station
A fossicker has stumbled across more than $200,000 which could have been stashed under a railway station by drug-dealing gangsters.
Police said they were investigating the possibility the cash found buried in a plastic barrel at Balaclava station was part of a large drug deal gone wrong.
Police checks have indicated the wads of $100 and $50 plastic and paper notes were not the spoils of an armed robbery.
Sgt Lars Holden, of St Kilda police, said police could not release any details about the fossicker who found the cash worth "well in excess of $200,000" because of fears for his or her safety.
He said if the money was booty from a crime, there were also concerns about the "severe repercussions" on the person who stashed it.
"Considering the large amount of money . . . we can assume that it was not some small-time operation," Sgt Holden said.
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