Posted on 07/26/2018 10:24:12 AM PDT by DFG
A Yuba City man says law enforcement confiscated his money but he didn’t commit a crime. Now he’s fighting to get back tens of thousands of dollars.
Yuba City resident Josh Gingerich buys and flips trucks. A recent buying trip to do that cost him a bag of cash which was seized by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drug interdiction task force at O’Hare Airport.
“A little over 29 grand,” the amount taken said Gingerich who was not arrested and did not break any laws. “No marijuana, no drugs.”
He believes an airport TSA agent saw the money in his backpack and tipped off the DEA.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacramento.cbslocal.com ...
Happens to me every year.
Within the US -- when going through Customs you must declare cash amounting to 10k+. I assume this guy was travelling internally in the US, buying and selling trucks, but the article doesn't seem to say.
Pressure to not use because we’re watching you.
Legalized theft. This is third world dictatorship stuff. All predicated on the stupid war on drugs. It has gone far beyond the very limited circumstances that forfeiture was first approved for. That was for pirates and smugglers on the high seas and at the American coastline.
If it had been to outside the U.S., they would have said something about the 10k limit.
This is just anti-freedom idiocy, another source of money for the government.
The fact that the ones seizing the money directly benefit from it makes a tremendous incentive to steal and abuse their power.
One of our imported Somalis walked through the Minneapolis Airport with hundreds of thousands in cash with a ticket back to Somalia. She may haven implicated in a massive fraud with phony daycare businesses collecting millions in state aid for childcare they never provided. Sadly her ticket was round trip.
Drug cops are the same class of lowlife as they are allegedly protecting us from.
This is why you should never accept any law that results in the government having better guns than you do.
Absolutely ridiculous.
“Last March, the U.S. Justice Department Inspector General released a report saying from 2007–2016, the DEA seized $3.2 billion with zero convictions tied to this money.”
What can we expect from the federal cartel? License to kill and steal.
Remember, you have to hate Putin, because he runs a phony democracy where the government and its cronies steal from the public for their own power and benefit.
If i had that much cash to transport, I would just drive and fotget any kind of public transportation.
Civil asset “forfeiture” (theft) is almost certainly the most hated issue on both sides of the aisle It is a brazen assault against the rule of law. If either side of Congress wants to reach across the aisle and show their constituents that they can work with the other side to make real changes that matter, there’s where you start.
These confiscation laws need to be changed NOW.
Possibly. It is far more likely that the handler did his usual subtle twitch to cause the dog to "hit", just as they practiced in "training".
Next time, take the train!
It comes from the FED with coke already embedded in it. This is not 'conspiracy theory' stuff. The Fed has admitted that traces of drugs end up in the counting machines, which it spreads to other currency as it counts it. You put together a large enough bundle of cash and a dog will hit on it.
I'm sure I'll see people further downthread saying that he should have just used a check or cashier's check. These folks have never dealt with large transactions like what he's describing. It is almost trivial these days to produce a fake cashier's check that will be accepted by a bank, then will be rejected up to 5 business days later when it hits the target institution. The Nigerian and other scammers use this to their advantage. Cash is the only way to reliably get around it, and our nanny-state government so restricts our ability to conduct large transactions by its terminally stupid refusal to print anything more than a $100 bill that it practically guarantees you'll be carrying enough money for a drug dog to detect (not even bothering to mention the fraud of these dogs in the first place).
In 1920 you could walk into a bank and get a $500 bill that would allow you to buy a brand new automobile. The equivalent today would be at least a $50,000 bill. Of course, we were free men back then, not slaves to the government.
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