We are living in a time when the due process protections of the Fourth Amendment are more important than ever.
Back in 2012, couple Adam and Jennifer Perry were speeding down an Illinois highway to reach a hearing specialist based in Salt Lake City, Utah who was supposed to treat an ear infection afflicting Adam. Their high speed drew the attention of state troopers, who pulled the couple over.
After a drug dog sniffed the Perry’s car, police searched their vehicle. They turned up empty-handed, with the only thing vaguely resembling the drugs they were looking for being a duffel bag that officers claimed smelled of marijuana.
But they found something else: $107,520 in cash, belonging to the Perrys’.
The officers let them go, but they kept the cash, even though the Perrys’ weren’t charged with a crime or even subject to a search warrant.
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Tennessee has and will do the same thing and it takes a lot of money and time to get your money ,they concider the money as money used to buy drugs or from the sale of drugs
Dennis Chapman:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?tid=a_inl-amp
That’s just out right stealing any one involved needs go to jail and loose there job.state of Illinois needs investigation for this I think. It is called racketeering.
Dennis Chapman:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/?client=ms-android-americamovil-us
Being a former officer my self . I personally think that it is wrong to take anything, especially money when no crime has been committed. This is as far as I’m concerned is legal theft. Something needs to be done about it. Just plain old greed. Illinois has always been a crooked state as long as I can remember. Look what we got for a president from it. Need I say anymore?
First probably a f**e story and if true it NOT the cop keeping it – the court system is the one finding there something amiss. Again if this is true why do some rush to judgment that the cop is “bad” when in fact the courts are in charge of what happens to the money?
I heard about it sometime ago. From what I can remember it was on tv news. I have heard of things like this before. Several years ago. In Missouri around Springfield. A trooper stopped a man in a rental car. Found two million dollars. Man said it wasn’t his money. Patrol took money man went on his way. Be me I’d said didn’t trust banks. Kept my money close to me to protect it. All he was stopped for was speeding. Patrol said they could have it. They said no reason to have taken money. No other violations found. Go figure.
It’s wrong when the asset is really suspicious.
Oklahoma does the same thing and Arizona to name a few.