(CNN) -- Authorities who seized $8,500 and assorted jewelry from a Tennessee man after a traffic stop in east Texas have agreed to return the property after his case drew attention from CNN. Police in the small East Texas town of Tenaha are accused of unjustly taking valuables from motorists. Roderick Daniels said police in Tenaha, Texas, took the money in October 2007 after they stopped him for doing 37 mph in a 35-mph zone. He said police threatened him with money-laundering charges and promised not to prosecute if he signed over the cash, which Daniels said was to buy a new car.
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Tenaha, Texas, police confiscated money in 2007 after traffic stop
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Roderick Daniels was stopped for driving 37 mph in a 35-mph zone
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He and others who had property taken have filed lawsuit
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Town's officials say they have done nothing wrong
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