A Saskatchewan judge has ordered $67,480 in cash police discovered during a traffic stop four years ago be forfeited to the Crown, despite the absence of any smoking gun linking the two men in the car to contraband tobacco sales.

The province’s director of civil forfeiture took Antonio Romano to Saskatchewan’s Court of Kings Bench to claim the money Mounties seized from a car they pulled over on Highway 1, on June 17, 2021, near Beverley, Sask., at approximately 4:16 a.m. Justin Foley was behind the wheel of the Toyota Corolla and Romano, who had rented it, was in the passenger seat.