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Driver arrested over drugs

27/06/2013

POLICE arrested a Lynbrook man, 29, on Sunday night after finding drugs and cash in the car he was driving through Dandenong.
Protective Service Officers were conducting a routine patrol at Dandenong Railway Station just after 10.30pm when they saw a vehicle driving erratically on Foster Street.
Dandenong police intercepted the car and a search uncovered a large amount of cash, several bags of powder, pills and cannabis.
They arrested the driver and he was assisting police with their inquiries.

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