Carrying Cash is Now Illegal
- Thread starter Cryozombie
- Start date
OP
OP
shesulsa said:
Id venture to guess, if you were dressed smartly, and in a BMW, and were stopped with 500 bucks it would be nothin. But if you were wearing a baggy pair of pants, some chains, and a FUBU sweatshirt, driving a beat up car, that 500 bucks might just disappear into the governments hands as "drug money"
There appears to be more to this than it appears.
If thats the case, then I'm slightly less worried. This is however something well worth watching as the premise is very worrying.
If thats the case, then I'm slightly less worried. This is however something well worth watching as the premise is very worrying.
modarnis
Purple Belt
Civil forfeiture has been around as long as the war on drugs. If you click on the link to the 8th Circuits opinion the facts are much more clear. The pertinent part is in this paragraph:
>>>
>>>
Brownell then asked for, and
received, consent to search the car. Trooper Bigsby went directly to the rear
passenger side of the vehicle and opened a cooler that was in the back seat, where he
found a large plastic bag that contained seven bundles wrapped in rubber bands inside
aluminum foil packaging. These bundles contained a total of $124,700 in currency.
Gonzolez and the vehicle were then taken to the Nebraska State Patrol office in
Lincoln.>>>
It was a consent search. Look at how the bills are packaged. Aluminum foil helps to defeat a dog sniff of money, since large quantities of cash will contain enough drug residue that dogfs will alert
received, consent to search the car. Trooper Bigsby went directly to the rear
passenger side of the vehicle and opened a cooler that was in the back seat, where he
found a large plastic bag that contained seven bundles wrapped in rubber bands inside
aluminum foil packaging. These bundles contained a total of $124,700 in currency.
Gonzolez and the vehicle were then taken to the Nebraska State Patrol office in
Lincoln.>>>
It was a consent search. Look at how the bills are packaged. Aluminum foil helps to defeat a dog sniff of money, since large quantities of cash will contain enough drug residue that dogfs will alert
I know of a lady that takes tweezers to remove the metal strips present in her money so the authorities cant use scanners to see what she carries. She isn't a drug dealer; however, she is just psychotic.
Sean
Sean
