Three people were arrested after a traffic stop in Minden that revealed a gun, drugs, and stolen mail containing checks worth nearly $150,000.

On Thursday, October 16, around 11 p.m., deputies pulled over an unregistered car on Esmerelda Avenue in Minden, according to a post from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office on Facebook.

The driver of the car, Enrrique Orozco, said he knew the car wasn't registered and that it didn't belong to him.

Two other people were also in the car, identified as Brando Perez-Pena and Elmer Cante-Pocasangre.

Orozco permitted deputies to search the car, and during that search, deputies found a handgun, suspected methamphetamine, and suspected cocaine.

Deputies also found a large amount of mail belonging to people other than the people in the car, as well as a device with a glue-type rat trap on the end used to pull mail out of mailboxes.

In the mail that was found, there were 147 checks that various victims had attempted to mail. The total value of the 147 checks was $149,857.73.

15 of the checks had allegedly been altered to make them payable to Orozco.

Evidence was also found indicating that the people in the car had been practicing forging the signatures of the account holders of the checks.

The DCSO says the mail appears to have been stolen from mailboxes in Washoe County, Lyon County, Carson City, and a number of California communities.

None of the mail appears to have been taken from mailboxes in Douglas County.

All three people in the car were booked in the DCSO Minden Jail for crimes including possession of a controlled substance for sale, possession of stolen property, obtaining personal identifying information, possession of burglary tools, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and uttering forged instruments.

Once in custody, it was determined that all three people who were arrested are in the country illegally, the Sheriff's Office said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed immigration holds on all three suspects.

The Sheriff's Office recommends that anyone mailing a check take the check inside the U.S. Post Office and not use the blue mailboxes outside.