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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I’ve been looking for the law that states, could you provide a link?
Not true.
Why would they steal their money they done nothing wrong it was probable their saving drew out of the bank easy proved r some people don’t use banks I don’t they rip you off.
Well that’s not right they stick that money in their pocket people need to start doing something about all this greed
It;s called offical theft. A town in Florida did it once to finance vacation sites for Police Officers, and other R&R excursions. There was a big TV expose about it. Oeople whose money were “confiscated (actually stolen) had to go to court to recover it or some of it…. Illinois cops must have learned plenty from those official robbers in Florida…
I don’t have a link just know I had a lot of family that were either city , county , or state officers they use to caution me about traveling with large sums , the bank mentioned it a few years ago I was going to with draw a large sum, they had to notifie the Feds and fill out paper work on it something about drugs or illegal transfers
Civil forfeiture is one of the most unConstitutional thing allowed by the courts. It’s all about the dollars.
This is drug money and the occupants claimed it was not theirs, and had no knowledge of how it got into their vehicle. This happens almost daily around the country.
They should arrest the police
innocent AMERICANS are being raped by law enforcement! !!