Posted on 11/09/2022 3:15:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
The bigger REAL issue is paying cash for a service or product; possibly to avoid paying taxes on the income. They could have written a check for $17,000, or done a wire transfer.
I’ve never heard of sending that much cash by FedEx.
So they were looking for American Bullies and found them.
“they tried to send $17,500 in cash through FedEx”
There’s a reason we invented money orders and cashier’s checks people.
Not to say that we don’t need to reform the asset forfeiture laws, but still, even if the cops didn’t take the money it’s still extremely stupid to send 17 grand in cash via the mail.
And some people wonder why LEOs are so hated across the country. A few dirty cops is all it takes to tarnish the rest.
You would think the Honest LEOs would stop this. Hell, they too are enjoying the fruits of the dirty and figure why mess with a good thing. Corruption runs deep.
Ex-squeeze me? Does this seem really stupid to anyone else?
It needs to stop.
It’s completely wrong.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think anyone who sends $17,500 in cash via FedEx is a moron. In addition to the obvious risk of theft, this raises all kinds of red flags that put a business owner on the radar screen of various government agencies.
We open the borders for drug cartels, then we treat the citizens as criminals.
They were breeding them for dogfights, that’s my guess.
Yeah; I was wondering why they were paying in cash that could be ‘smelled’ in the first place.
Not a good business practice.
They were stupid to send cash through the mail. But being stupid is not a crime. I hope they get their money back.
I remember hearing in the 80’s-90’s that cocaine was detected on pretty much all paper money as people would roll it up to use as a straw.
I was in NYC with my family a couple of weeks ago and I swear you can’t walk around without smelling pot smoke at virtually all times. Everywhere we went. Cops saying you’re a drug dealer because they smell a legal substance that everyone seems to be smoking everywhere in big cities just doesn’t hold water.
I got myself involved during a domestic flight. I thought our jetliner was going to be hijacked, so passed a note to the pilot. When we landed, the perp was detained in front of me. I later heard from flight attendents that drugs were exchanged for cash, and the perp had taped $40,000 to his body. This was in the late 1980s.
The cash was confiscated as a civil forfeiture, and the case went to trial a year later. The line of questioning to me (by Public Defenders) developed that I was not an expert in hijacking, so the cash should be returned to the perp, who spoke only Spanish.
The cash was ultimately returned to the perp, and presumably, his Cartel.
Recall what Christ said to the soldiers who asked Him how they should live?
“And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.”
This hellish doctrine of civil asset forfeiture lets the police do exactly these things at the expense of thpse they claim to be protecting.
All for calling the Sheriff when he found illegal activity on his property. The “forfeiture” laws need to be changed, much like the sovereign immunity laws which allow government employees to violate citizens’ rights, without any repercussions.
I would have a lot more sympathy for them, and more faith in their innocence, if they weren’t breeding American Bullies, the breed choice of drug thugs, the dog that eats little children for breakfast.
That said, civil forfeiture is a unconstitutional and deeply corrupting, and I’m glad they got their money back, and I wish they would breed Yorkies instead.
The owner of a bunch of bikini barista coffee stands was busted for tax evasion after they tried to deposit a bunch of cash that smelled like fish.
If I remember correctly the local pd got in on the investigation and all their undercover officers frequented all these stands daily for a year.
They justified it as a prostitution investigation because they said a confidential informant told them that some of the baristas had offered them sex.
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