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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Damn I’m afraid to carry even a couple of hundred dollars around.
Obviously they just sold the drugs and that’s the stash. If you’re going to try for a news story, print the whole story, like how the couple are drug dealers and got caught with the payola after the deal.
Rotten
I have looked for this story in local news from the town it happened in, Illinois state police sites and The local Circuit Clerk’s office and found nothing. An Internet search only brings up a few alternative news sites that I never heard of. So is it a true story or not.
They do that in Nevada.
Totally not surprised !! If it was me and that happened I would be suing the c**p outta that cop and everyone involved !!!
If you have large amount of cash in car you better have – bank account statements proof of where it came from. By the way those little strips in the money , put enough of them in one place they can detect them
I wouldn’t set foot in that state … it’s been corrupt for many years .. have even read warnings about them pulling over all out of state vehicles for guns so they a confiscate property
The dog alerted for marajuana on a bag that ended up having $100,000 and then the wife had about 7,000 in her purse. They said the money came from selling some cars (didn’t say what kind) totally about $50,000, insurance settlement for $7,000, and they said the rest was from disability payments from California. All they had to do to get the money back was to show the paperwork for selling the cars, insurance, and disabity payments (which would not be hard to do being as insurance companies don’t pay out in cash and neither does disability). They can’t show any proof which leads me to believe it was definitely gained doing something illegal. Cops didn’t do anything wrong.
Drug money for sure!!! Savings lol