Mani
03-12-2014, 11:19 PM
Here we go with another CASH and GRAB police department. Looks like this is a becoming a nationwide trend. Won't be long before every highway is going to have cash grab stops.
Drug Search: CHECK
DUI test: CHECK
DNA Sample: CHECK
CASH on hand: CHECK
Get ready. When you get pulled over you're going to be handing over your blood and if you happen to have enough cash to cause "suspicion" that's going to be gone and any other valuables that might be in your car. And you will be told if you don't comply you will be beaten or caged or both.
Welcome to AMERIKA.
https://news.yahoo.com/rural-nevada-sheriff-defends-80-drugs-stops-184700249.html
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada sheriff is defending the practice of stopping suspected drug traffickers on U.S. Interstate 80 and confiscating tens of thousands of dollars even if no criminal charges are filed.
Reports that two men had filed lawsuits in federal court against the county stirred concerns among Humboldt County residents that deputies are making illegal searches and seizures along I-80 in the high desert near Winnemucca about 165 miles east of Reno.
Humboldt County Sheriff Ed Kilgore said he can't discuss case details, but he wants to assure residents the stops are legal and not intended to shake down unsuspecting visitors. He said that civil forfeitures are legal if an arresting officer suspects the individual obtained — or intends to use — the money illegally.
"What I'm hearing on the street is that we stop you and ask you for your license, registration and your insurance, and how much money do you have? That simply is not how it is ever done," he said at a sheriff's open house he hosted Tuesday night that attracted about 40 people to the Winnemucca Convention Center.
The federal plaintiffs from California and Colorado tell strikingly similar stories about their stops near Winnemucca in September and December. No drugs were found or arrests made, but both say they were told they'd be released with their vehicles only if they forfeited their cash in violation of their constitutional rights.
One gave up a briefcase filled with $50,000 cash, and the other handed over $13,800 and a handgun, their lawsuits contend.
"It's like Jesse James or Black Bart," John Ohlson, a Reno lawyer representing one of the men, told The Associated Press last week.
Bob Pace was among the locals who raised concerns that regardless of whether the claims are true, they may be giving the town a black eye.
(continued at the link)
Drug Search: CHECK
DUI test: CHECK
DNA Sample: CHECK
CASH on hand: CHECK
Get ready. When you get pulled over you're going to be handing over your blood and if you happen to have enough cash to cause "suspicion" that's going to be gone and any other valuables that might be in your car. And you will be told if you don't comply you will be beaten or caged or both.
Welcome to AMERIKA.
https://news.yahoo.com/rural-nevada-sheriff-defends-80-drugs-stops-184700249.html
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada sheriff is defending the practice of stopping suspected drug traffickers on U.S. Interstate 80 and confiscating tens of thousands of dollars even if no criminal charges are filed.
Reports that two men had filed lawsuits in federal court against the county stirred concerns among Humboldt County residents that deputies are making illegal searches and seizures along I-80 in the high desert near Winnemucca about 165 miles east of Reno.
Humboldt County Sheriff Ed Kilgore said he can't discuss case details, but he wants to assure residents the stops are legal and not intended to shake down unsuspecting visitors. He said that civil forfeitures are legal if an arresting officer suspects the individual obtained — or intends to use — the money illegally.
"What I'm hearing on the street is that we stop you and ask you for your license, registration and your insurance, and how much money do you have? That simply is not how it is ever done," he said at a sheriff's open house he hosted Tuesday night that attracted about 40 people to the Winnemucca Convention Center.
The federal plaintiffs from California and Colorado tell strikingly similar stories about their stops near Winnemucca in September and December. No drugs were found or arrests made, but both say they were told they'd be released with their vehicles only if they forfeited their cash in violation of their constitutional rights.
One gave up a briefcase filled with $50,000 cash, and the other handed over $13,800 and a handgun, their lawsuits contend.
"It's like Jesse James or Black Bart," John Ohlson, a Reno lawyer representing one of the men, told The Associated Press last week.
Bob Pace was among the locals who raised concerns that regardless of whether the claims are true, they may be giving the town a black eye.
(continued at the link)