[robertpaulsen]

"Doesn't matter a lot WHAT the source of the money is, until or unless they are CONVICTED IN OPEN COURT OF AN ACTUAL CRIME."

So if a bank is robbed of $215,000 and I have $215,000 in my trunk that I can't explain, I get to keep it if the cops can't prove I robbed the bank?

Wow! This opens up many possibilities for avoiding arrest.

[dcwusmc]

I don't recall that these guys were pulled over as bank robbery suspects, do you? If so, could you point that out to me, please? Or am I being too insensitive in pointing out your strawman? These folks had THEIR money taken from them, no charges filed, no arrests even made. Only LATER ON, when the sheriff's deputies, who would get to KEEP the money stolen by themselves, participated in some sort of drug task force and conveniently linked the money's actual owners to the druggies. It's way too convenient a co-inkydink for me to swallow at all.

But then, like old LL, you can swallow anything spouting from some LEO.