Sheriff's agency may get $1.1 million found in SUV

AP ^ | 4.4.04

[ambrose]

CLEVELAND, Tenn.

[cyborg]

That money should go back to the tax payers who fund the waste of time that is the war on drugs.

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[Wally_Kalbacken]

Please send two such SUV's to Fulton Co. Georgia ASAP. That's the amount that the nit-witted Sheriff lost via a fraudulent investment with some unscrupulous financial advisors that any fool could have seen as such at 900 yards.

[sully777]

BAD ENOUGH DRIVERLESS SUV's RUN PEOPLE OVER, ATTACK CAMPERS, POLLUTE, USE UP ALL WORLD's OIL RESERVES, NOW SUV's ARE STEALING MONEY! IT'S KILLDOZER, CHRISTINE, AND BONNY&CLYDE RUN AMUCK.

[lowbridge]

Ezequial Guzman, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant with a California address....

Whatsa matter with this guy? Doesnt the welfare system provide enough free money?

"It's getting ready to be forfeited because nobody filed a claim to it," Bartlett said. "If someone filed a claim to it, we would be setting it for trial."

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm........I wonder if the risk is worth all that green :-)

[Chewbacca]

If Senor Guzman had claimed the money as his, I would have asked him whether he had declared the income on his Form 1040.
If not, then throw his butt in jail for tax evasion.

It worked for Al Capone.

[Amalie]

A great tale, but the seizure laws are a real problem for ordinary citizens. I have seen 100K plus cash change hands between car owners (musclecar collectors). You get caught by the cops holding that level of money, and you are going to need a very good legal team to get your money back no matter what your past record is. Some of these jurisdictions base part of their budgets on seizure funds. The moral for the guys in this story seems to be DON'T SPEED, and always drive something at least 10 years old...