re: Oklahoma Police now have device that seizes $$ from bank card

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Yawn. You ever noticed that stuff like this doesn't happen to people that don;t go out looking for it?

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Yeah. Except that it does.

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After Tan Nguyen was pulled over for driving three miles above the speed limit, he had $50,000 confiscated by a Nevada deputy. According to Nguyen, that money was casino winnings. As reported last week at Forbes, Nguyen “was not arrested or charged with a crime—not even a traffic citation.”

He filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing his civil rights were violated by an “unconstitutional search and seizure.” In that lawsuit, Nguyen claimed Deputy Lee Dove, who had pulled him over for speeding, threatened to seize and tow his car unless he “got in his car and drove off and forgot this ever happened.”

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LINK

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Two uniformed men -- an airport police detective and a local Drug Enforcement Administration officer -- approached by Clarke and corralled him into a fluorescent backroom. His checked bag sat on a table. One of the men turned to him and grunted, “This smells like marijuana.” An extensive search ensued, which yielded no trace of drugs in Clarke’s luggage. But buried between t-shirts, in the young man’s bag, the officers discovered something of greater interest: $11,000 in cash.

The cash, earned through five years of hard work at fast-food restaurants and retail outlets, represented Clarke’s life savings -- money he intended to use for tuition fees. But the officers didn’t buy his story. Based solely on the fact that his bag “smelled like weed,” they claimed that the $11,000 was related to drug trafficking and seized it.

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How Police Officers Seize Cash From Innocent Americans

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In perhaps one of the most offensive cases of civil forfeiture, federal prosecutors are fighting to keep $167,000 in cash seized during a traffic stop, despite no crime being committed and a judge ordering it be returned in June.

Straughn Gorman was on a cross country trip to California in his motor home when he was pulled over by a Nevada state trooper for allegedly driving too slow on the interstate.

During the stop, the trooper decided he suspected Gorman was hiding money, but no police dog units were available to come to the scene and help him obtain probable cause for a search.

Refusing to let a little thing like “the law” get in the way of a hunch, the determined trooper requested that the county sheriff’s office stop him again with a police dog.

Gorman was stopped again, approximately 50 minutes later for two alleged traffic violations and searched after a police dog alerted to drugs. No drugs were found in his motor home, but they did find approximately $167,000 stashed throughout it.

The infuriating police video of the forfeiture is below, which had been posted on the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Despite there not being any evidence of a crime – his vehicle, computer, cellphone and the cash, were seized

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Feds Who Stole $167,000 in Cash from Innocent Man in Civil Forfeiture Seizure Refusing to Return it Despite Judge’s Order


Guess these folks had it coming, right?

im referring to your collective posts over the last two pages.

you are either 1) just trolling and being argumentative to be funny which is lame or 2) actually as naive as you are portraying in which case i hope you never have to deal with even slightly crooked police because you will not know what hit you.

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actually as naive as you are portraying in which case i hope you never have to deal with even slightly crooked police because you will not know what hit you.

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I grew up in Kenner. I know a thing or two about nazi police forces.

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1) just trolling and being argumentative to be funny which is lame

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Hopefully

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It's not uncommon for someone to be driving a vehicle legally, that isn't registered to their name.

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Well, this guy's car was taken. Nothing else. If the car didn't belong to me, that's not really too much of a hassle.

"I don't carry a lot of cash on me."

That's the point, they don't find any cash so they'll check your bank account balances.

So, unless you have a low bank balance and no cash, you might have an issue.

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Guess these folks had it coming, right?

I would love for you to show me anywhere where I say anything remotely similar to that.

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In the very post of yours that I quoted you said this....

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Yawn. You ever noticed that stuff like this doesn't happen to people that don;t go out looking for it?

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Do you think those three people I listed had gone out looking for it?

ETA: whoops.

The "well, I won't object because they won't do it to me" people are a huge problem.

Texas enacted huge administrative penalties for people with DUI's. It is a drivers license "fee". The reality is it is a chickenshit way to raise revenue. Since most people won't get DUI's most people won't object.

Same with exorbitant cigarette taxes. Most people don't smoke.

Eventually, you'll be in the group that gets hit.

Country made a huge mistake when the criminal justice system became a funding source and profit center. There should be no private prisons, no forfeiture laws (except for large amounts with lots of due process), no traffic cams, and no "administrative"penalties in addition to criminal fines and costs.

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Same with exorbitant cigarette taxes. Most people don't smoke.

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That's an awful example. Poor health cost tax payers and people that actually pay for their insurance a boat load of money yearly.

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Country made a huge mistake when the criminal justice system became a funding source and profit center.

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I'm guessing you think I disagree with this. I don't.