Posted on 12/08/2021 2:31:37 PM PST by simpson96
Two local TV news outlets, WFAA and CBS11, picked up a story this week that was first reported on the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page. On the surface, it reads like a feel-good story: On December 2, an adorable K9 named Ballentine identified a piece of carry-on luggage at Dallas Love Field Airport that contained $100,000 in cash. Police seized the money and posted a photo of the dog with stacks of cash laid out on a table. Good boy. Case closed. But not so fast.
According to the reports, the money belonged to a 25-year-old woman from Chicago, who was neither arrested nor charged with a crime after her luggage was seized by police. So why did the police take the money? Well, according to Texas law, police don’t need a reason to take your property so long as they believe it either has been part of a crime or they believe it will be involved in a crime. That grants law enforcement sweeping powers to basically seize any property they believe is suspicious, even if they don’t have much evidence. The fact that the K9 identified the bag is, in and of itself, not evidence; 90 percent of cash in circulation has been shown to have trace amounts of cocaine.(snip)
Civil forfeiture laws allow law enforcement to seize property without due process.
(Excerpt) Read more at dmagazine.com ...
“All she needs to do is come up with a reasonable explanation as to where the money came from and where it was going. Then she can have it back.”
Why?
See my post 42. She is a lowlife drug runner/mule who do nothing but bring death and misery.
No person carries 100k in cash especially a 25 year old.
A friend carried $60k in cash to go buy a 68 mustang because the seller wanted cash. He had his bank wire it down to a bank near the sellers house and picked it up which was 2 states away. . He had the guys address, phone number, emails and photos just in case he was pull over by the police.
So rather than remove their catastrophic innovations and admit they had screwed up, SCOTUS decided to remove your ability to pay for an attorney and make it easier for the state to railroad defendants by allowing civil asset forfeiture.
Rent a riot funds from BLM or ANTIFA. Per diem going to the next outrage.
Oh so wrong. So very wrong. This has happened before (it was a tow truck) and your dearly beloved JBTs kept the money.
This 25 year old girl could not give any info to what the money was for
Actually we do not know that because the young lady was never asked her side of the story. The media just was not interested. Funny how that works.
What 25 year old carries that kind of money around,?
Someone who sold their deceased grandparents house?
Any number of reasons.
Drug runner
Scum sucking statist.
And french.
“He had the guys address, phone number, emails and photos just in case he was pull over by the police.”
All good and fine, but what LAW is he breaking if he doesn’t bring that information?
Happened to a teen up in Plano a few weeks ago over a lot less. I think it was $24k and a few drugs. Now there's one fewer drug dealer in town, and a handful of punks in jail for the killing. We'll see if they give up the guy that hired them.
That’s crazy and a terrible law. I worked in an airport and have never seen a seizure of money like that. There are people who travel for auctions.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
and the 5th:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
14 hour drive from Dallas to Chicago. With $100k, a person has a LOT of options other than knowing that they’ll have to get it through TSA.
If you 100k in cash you will have some verification where it came from- deceased relative, selling property, even written receipt if you won at the casino or poker game
I know you dearly want to live under the Napoleonic code where you are guilty until proven innocent but actual normal Americans don't really care for that.
A friend carried $60k in cash to go buy a 68 mustang because the seller wanted cash. He had his bank wire it down to a bank near the sellers house and picked it up which was 2 states away. . He had the guys address, phone number, emails and photos just in case he was pull over by the police.
If your "friend" had been pulled over by the JBT's he would have lost his money the same way this totally innocent young lady lost hers.
I am sure you would have scrambled for some way to "prove" that this was actually all his fault as you lovingly lick the police boot on your neck.
Respectfully, your friend is an idiot who is lucky he didn't end up dead. No way he should have done that deal outside of somewhere with security - at bare minimum a law office, but a bank would be better.
Her $10,000 will be returned to her in a few years after an intensive investigation. A cop will deliver the $1,000 personally and say sorry about that.
No need. Because, pay close attention frenchie, there is no law saying you need to do so.
But even such is not good enough for your thieves in blue because they just take it anyway.
No matter what paperwork you have.
Because they can.
And you are just fine with it.
Even if she proves herself innocent of a crime, which is a disgusting concept btw, the pigs will still keep the money till she wins a lawsuit. Search civil asset forfeiture abuse and never trust a cop again.
They will just transfer it to the federal government and then say... we don't have it, go sue the feds.
Yep.
That happened.
He bought it from a well known mustang seller/restorer. They knew each other for 30 years
Read later.
So where is the win in that?
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