and Fed Gov Ordered to Pay Nearly $40k in Legal Fees
In 2012, Tara Mishra decided to invest over one million dollars in a nightclub.
Mishra gave the money to her future business partners, a married couple, to transport from California to New Jersey for her.
The couple was pulled over for speeding along the way.
What should have been a standard traffic stop completely turned Mishra’s life upside down.
The Nebraska state trooper who stopped the pair asked to search the vehicle, and the couple consented. Officers discovered Mishra’s cash in multiple plastic bags stuffed with $100 bills in $10,000 stacks.
The officer, suspecting drug involvement, called in drug-sniffing dogs. Trace amounts of illegal drugs were found on the bills. The officers felt this was enough reason to seize Mishra’s money, even though studies show that up to 90% of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine. The couple was released without charges, but only after agreeing to relinquish the cash.
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Good...this is covered under the 5th Amendment Clause
ReplyDeleteSo the cops just thought they could steal it and get away with it?
ReplyDeleteTypical.
Ok. No excuse for government keeping the money but really, driving a million dollars in cash across the country. So many opportunities to be robbed, carjacked, murdered, etc. Did they haul the money back and forth to the car when stopping for the night? What about rest areas and stops for food? How about a simple bank to bank wire transfer? Easy and safe.
ReplyDeletedrug money. the business was just a fall back. liberal ppl were fooled again!
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