$500K Drug Money Found When Suspect Hit Nebraska Soccer Team Bus

A high school soccer team was involved in a crash on Thursday in Nebraska, but the accident itself isn't the biggest headline.

Fortunately, no one was injured seriously when a van crashed into the team bus but what officers found once they arrived surprised everyone involved.

Authorities responding and investigating the incident discovered around $570,000 in what they suspect is drug money.

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The story gets even crazier as the suspect is a 62-year-old male, who is a former law enforcement officer from California.

The incident occurred on Interstate 80 near mile marker 388.

According to reports, the only two people taken to the hospital were the suspect and the driver of the bus, but according to those same reports, none of the injuries were serious.

According to KCAU TV, the investigation is still ongoing and no further details have been given as to the origin of the suspected drug money.

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It's hard not to take this a little personally. Guy Fieri of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives has visited the Cowboy State a few times. Yet each time he stays close to Jackson. The show takes us on a culinary voyage across the U.S, but he's never stopped in Cheyenne, Casper, or even Chugwater.

CLASSIC CHEYENNE: The Cole Shopping Center

In December of 2020, Blue Federal Credit Union completed its new headquarters at the corner of Converse and Pershing in Cheyenne. Well, it’s not so much a ‘corner’ as it is the smooth edge of a roundabout, but anyway. Before Blue FCU built its new campus, the site was at one time a premier shopping destination for Cheyenne. From the 1950s through 2016 it was Cheyenne's Cole Shopping Center.

Local businessman Frank Cole bought the land that would become a Cheyenne gathering place in the 1950s when the corner of Converse and Pershing was the edge of town. Starting in 1952, three different Safeway grocery stores called the Cole home over its half-century of existence. A plethora of other stores served the neighborhood too. From the movie theater to Blockbuster; there was the Cole Department Store, the fabric store, the East Branch of the Carnegie Library, and so much more.

As Cheyenne grew and changed, the Shopping Center fell into decline. Stores closed and new ones didn't take their places. The anchor of the area, Safeway, closed for good in 2016 with much of the rest following. In 2018 the buildings were demolished and the new construction began.

The Cole was so integral to the neighborhood that when we asked on social media for folks’ memories we were flooded with hundreds of responses.

Check out many of those memories below, along with several pictures of the Cole Shopping Center, mostly from near the end in the twenty-teens.

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