[bkopto]

One moral of this story: the civil rights of the people are at the mercy of police dogs.

[gdani]

Based on past responses to War on Drugs threads, there are unfortunately many Freepers who support this.

[George from New England]

Since the deal that fell through AND the alleged police stop both happened in Iowa, how do we know this wasn’t a setup from the get go. Get out-of-staters to drive down on a cash only deal, raise the price so the deal gets called off. Then use you LEO buddies to grab all the cash before they leave the county or state.

??

Just saying.

[Svartalfiar]

[Rebelbase]

F’ing thieves.

An old girlfriend’s son went to TX to do a two week job and was paid $3000 cash.

He got stopped at 2:00am on his way back home in some podunk TX county and the sheriff’s dept pulled the same stunt and threw him in jail for drug trafficking.

His mom had to wire an attorney $15,000 retainer to handle the case and the charges were dropped the next day. The same attorney didn’t do jack squat to get the seized $3000 back.

Makes me wonder if the Sheriff and Attorney are not in cohoots to split the money on these out of state suckers who make the mistake of driving through their county.

[IC Ken]

If you get caught with more than 10K cash they can take it.
This is not anything new. Lesson here is do travel with that much cash unless you are willing to fight to get it back.

[fella]

SAaaaaaaay? Isn’t every penny earned by an illegal alien ill gotten gains and therefore available for confiscation by the PoPo?

[The Great RJ]

Carrying that amount of cash is strange, but not illegal. It is well known that US $100 bills frequently have traces of illegal drugs so it would not be far fetched that the dog would take notice.

[zeugma]

Drug warriors are directly responsible for the largest loss of liberty for Americans than just about any other group.

[CurlyDave]

I think there is something fishy about this story.

Overton says he got the money from his wife, Tiffani D.S. Barber, to buy some property in Iowa; he drove down there, the deal fell through so he was on his way home.

Now lets talk turkey here. I have done over 20 real estate transactions in my life, and none of them, not one required cash. When I want to put earnest money down, I write a check. When I need to deposit money into escrow, I write another check.

The only time I have even seen cash in a real estate transaction was when a realtor bought lunch for us.

So, tell me again why $48k in cash was necessary for a real estate deal.