Posted on 06/21/2002 9:29:45 PM PDT by chance33_98
Officials Want To Keep Seized Money Police Say Driver Suspected Of Dealing Drugs
POSTED: 8:39 a.m. EDT June 21, 2002
CONCORD, N.H. -- Federal prosecutors want a judge to allow officials to keep nearly $18,000 Amherst police seized during a drunken driving arrest last year.
Police say the driver, Michael Dipersia, 19, of Amherst, Mass., is suspected of dealing drugs. They found a marijuana joint in the car.
Dipersia was acquitted of DWI and transporting a controlled drug charges, but the government says when he was stopped, he had drug charges pending in two Massachusetts courts, and was on probation for a drug possession and distribution conviction in New Jersey.
Prosecutors say the money was either proceeds from drug dealing or intended to be used to buy drugs, and can be forfeited under federal drug laws
You would think that they would have more important things to do. Like hunt down all of the Middle Eastern males that have overstayed their visas.
/john
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