Tourists with spent brass in their car have been arrested on this same charge.
It’s still a money scam that should be covered on ‘American Greed” with all the other Madoffs!
In 1957 after buying a Brand new Ford , I had to have the Dealer remove a door panel to solve a noise problem.
A line worker placed his empty Pepsi bottle in the driver’s door.
The question is, “How many of us are driving vehicles that have caches we don’t know about?” Drugs, weapons(used in a crime? )etc, etc.
It would be so easy to set an enemy up with a plant and then dropping a dime, it is probably done every day.
Good Luck Pecos