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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Regina Perry Law enforcement doesn’t “steal money” . If you are innocent you get it back.
I want to be clear about this so NO ONE MISUNDERSTANDS, regardless of who you are, IF you try to remove money from me on the highway or anywhere else, one or both of us is not going home that day! You may call it law but I call it stealing and may God have mercy on your soul if you try it with me. I’m old and I don’t care. I’m very willing to pay the price so let your conscious be your guide. PS: I don’t shoot at vest. I go for knees and heads.
That is clearly a crime on the part of the cops in Illinois. It is really risky to carry that much cash.
Jacquie Ellis
Your right…that’s what I was trying to get across to these guys. Just because you have the right doesn’t mean you have to do it and end up losing your money to a crooked cop.
I’ve seen articles of Iowa cops doing this.
cop or not…he’d be dead. I don’t carry cash as it is…but if I was….and they “tried” to seize it….bodies….I don’t play games nor do I believe in coincidence…
Assholes!
Crooked system, civil forfeiture is nothing but a cash grab and it’s unconstitutional
That’s what has been posted by me if you got it they gonna take it they have the technology in the police cars to even drain your bank account and are doing it and you have to try to prove where you got your money good luck if the take it kiss it goodbye
I agree they gonna have to choose whether they are with us or against us