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Originally posted by olaru12
The cops had no right taking someone's money without any evidence of criminal activity!
In this latest case, a Monterey police officer took $22,000 off the driver -- even though he had committed no crime.
"You live in the United States, you think you have rights -- and apparently you don't," said George Reby.
As a professional insurance adjuster, Reby spends a lot of time traveling from state to state. But it was on a trip to a conference in Nashville last January that he got a real education in Tennessee justice.
"I never had any clue that they thought they could take my money legally," Reby added. "I didn't do anything wrong."
Reby was driving down Interstate 40, heading west through Putnam County, when he was stopped for speeding.
A Monterey police officer wanted to know if he was carrying any large amounts of cash.
"I said, 'Around $20,000,'" he recalled. "Then, at the point, he said, 'Do you mind if I search your vehicle?' I said, 'No, I don't mind.' I certainly didn't feel I was doing anything wrong. It was my money."
That's when Officer Larry Bates confiscated the cash based on his suspicion that it was drug money.
"Why didn't you arrest him?" we asked Bates.
"Because he hadn't committed a criminal law," the officer answered.
Bates said the amount of money and the way it was packed gave him reason to be suspicious.
"The safest place to put your money if it's legitimate is in a bank account," he explained. "He stated he had two. I would put it in a bank account. It draws interest and it's safer."
"But it's not illegal to carry cash," we noted.
"No, it's not illegal to carry cash," Bates said. "Again, it's what the cash is being used for to facilitate or what it is being utilized for."
NewsChannel 5 Investigates noted, "But you had no proof that money was being used for drug trafficking, correct? No proof?"
"And he couldn't prove it was legitimate," Bates insisted.
Bates is part of a system that, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has discovered, gives Tennessee police agencies the incentive to take cash off of out-of-state drivers. If they don't come back to fight for their money, the agency gets to keep it all.
"This is a taking without due process," said Union City attorney John Miles.
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
365 days x 15 years =5,475 potential work days
1,074,000 dollars / 5,475 days = $196 a day.... Not accounting for tax
I can't say I have ever spent any amount of time in a strip club, but logic tells me she would have to be one hell of a good stripper to pull that kind of cash every day for 15 years. Maybe she started young?edit on 23-7-2013 by CIAGypsy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by TDawgRex
journalstar.com...
Troopers found two drawstring bags in the cargo area holding large Ziploc bags with rubber-banded bundles of cash — mostly $100s — along with dryer sheets
The Dehris originally said they were taking the money to New Jersey for their friends, Tasha and Rajat Mishra, for a business deal involving a nightclub.
Drive from California to New Jeersy carrying 1 million in cash?
Call me a skeptic.
Never met a stripper with a heart of gold.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Most "Strippers" are on something. NO WAY she saved all her money.
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by TDawgRex
..... why was she just driving around with all the moola.... I get it, it's hers and she earned it 1 dollar at a time, but why are you driving around with over a million bucks.... what if your car got stolen, or she got in an accident. Then it'd really be gone.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer.
Bataillon ordered that Mishra receive cash or a check in the value of $1,074,000 with interest.
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
365 days x 15 years =5,475 potential work days
1,074,000 dollars / 5,475 days = $196 a day.... Not accounting for tax
I can't say I have ever spent any amount of time in a strip club, but logic tells me she would have to be one hell of a good stripper to pull that kind of cash every day for 15 years. Maybe she started young?edit on 23-7-2013 by CIAGypsy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neo96
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by neo96
Aw, C'mon Neo. We've all read stories about lil' ol' ladies who have millions stashed under the mattress and lived the simple life.
Maybe she started early?edit on 23-7-2013 by TDawgRex because: Fat Paws
Use to work at a strip club I know how much they can make 1 million?
Not even close, only place that might even come to that is Vegas or some High end club, but they don't deal in $1's.
That stripper was most likely a mule carrying that cash for something else, rather sure it was not a 'club'.
Strip clubs are one of the best places for money laundering either way I doubt her story.
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
365 days x 15 years =5,475 potential work days
1,074,000 dollars / 5,475 days = $196 a day.... Not accounting for tax
I can't say I have ever spent any amount of time in a strip club, but logic tells me she would have to be one hell of a good stripper to pull that kind of cash every day for 15 years. Maybe she started young?edit on 23-7-2013 by CIAGypsy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
365 days x 15 years =5,475 potential work days
1,074,000 dollars / 5,475 days = $196 a day.... Not accounting for tax
I can't say I have ever spent any amount of time in a strip club, but logic tells me she would have to be one hell of a good stripper to pull that kind of cash every day for 15 years. Maybe she started young?edit on 23-7-2013 by CIAGypsy because: (no reason given)