Cops and Cash Seizures (1 Viewer)

[guidomerkinsrules]

I remember a story in the Bay Area that a Dealers car was impounded and later auctioned in said area. The new owner was gunned down by the dealers competition. They thought the dealer was driving. So there's that.

Drug dealer or car dealer ?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Drug dealer or car dealer ?

Could be either or

those car dealership feuds can be brutal

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

Is it bad that I first assumed car dealer and thought, “sounds about right”

 

[2009ring]

OMG if this law was passed it would be huge. Of course it would have to be enforced.

 

[bclemms]

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

The Nevada trooper first told Stephen Lara the highway patrol was educating drivers “about violations they may not realize they’re committing,” and that he’d been pulled over for following a tanker truck a bit too closely.

After some small talk, the trooper admitted an ulterior purpose: stopping the smuggling of illegal drugs, weapons and currency as they crossed the state.
Lara — a former Marine who says he was on his way to visit his daughters in Northern California — insisted he was doing none of those things, though he readily admitted he had “a lot” of cash in his car.

As he stood on the side of the road, police searched the vehicle, pulling nearly $87,000 in a zip-top bag from Lara’s trunk and insisting a drug-sniffing dog had detected something on the cash.


Police found no drugs, and Lara, 39, was charged with no crimes. But police nonetheless left with his money, calling a Drug Enforcement Administration agent to coordinate a process known as “adoption,” which allows federal authorities to seize cash or property they suspect is connected to criminal activity without levying criminal charges.

“I left there confused. I left there angry,” Lara said in an interview with The Washington Post. “And I could not believe that I had just been literally robbed on the side of the road by people with badges and guns.”


It was only after Lara got a lawyer, sued and talked with The Washington Post about his ordeal that the government said it would return his money.

Asked for comment on this story on Tuesday, spokespeople for the Justice Department, DEA and Nevada Highway Patrol all declined to comment. But on Wednesday, after this story first published, DEA spokeswoman Anne Edgecomb said the agency had made a decision to return Lara’s money and the government vowed a broader review………

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/stephen-lara-nevada-asset-forfeiture-adoption/2021/09/01/6f170932-06ae-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html