What criminal charge?
If this is true, that deputy should be promptly fired.
I bet he was on his way to the IRS office to declare it.
America should be broken up under RICO.
Theft by the state.
1) seizure of assets without due process needs to end.
2) K-9 “alerting” needs to be ruled insufficient evidence for probable cause.
The Cops are just playing by the existing rules, nothing to see here.
Asset forfeiture is pretext for cop robbery of people that carry cash instead of digital money that said govt can track and prevent you accessing at their discretion.
Let’s see
If the lawyer gets a 50% contingency on getting the money back, that will net about $26,500 for the victim. Then a $20,000 retainer on the criminal charges and $5000 for the bond, and the victim should end up with about $1500. The lawyer probably will need to share some of his $46,000 with other interested parties, so it won’t all end up in his pockets.
Neither the cops’ story or the guy’s story smells legit. Who the heck carries around $53,000 in cash?
Any cash found and confiscated by police is deemed and treated as drug money. ALL cash is open to legal confiscation by any law enforcement agency at any time in any meeting of a LEO and another person.
I’ve lived this
It’s your effing nightmare trust me
(Hat tip ASF)
They will take every penny and asset they can identify sullied or not
Charges or not
The founders dealt with this from Kings
They knew better
Here is an interview if anyone wants to read more than the headline:
http://www.tulsaworldtv.com/Eh-Wah-interview-on-disputed-Muskogee-County-asset-forfeiture-30669695
A few thoughts:
1) He is a former refugee, now a citizen it seems.
2) Where he comes from you deal in cash and avoid the government. Might be a good idea here also, maybe not.
3)I would suspect the money is collected from other refugees and small churches if it is contributions. Else the source is sales of cd’s and cover charges for the band?
4) probably doesn’t have an official non profit status nor is working under one.
5) My background in non profits, I would want it documented so I wouldn’t be accused of anything. $53,000 is a lot of money to be carrying around.
6) If I was the officer, I would have to question also. Bad deal all the way around. At worst it is drugs, at best, unreported/untaxed income. Some documentation shows it is collected FOR orphanage, but evidence spent there?
7) Hillary does the same thing but has official non profit to hide behind.
The War On Drugs (actually a war on the constitution) has done far more damage to this country than drugs ever did or could.
Just found out I can not take a cash credit card advance larger than $500.00 anymore. It makes me wonder if it the government or the bank?
It’s easy money when you can grab it from some poor sod.
Usually, it’s called Grand Larceny.