>>Ya news about this sort of thing pops up from time to time. The ones that really seem to have the most problems are the semi-truck drivers - this happens to them all the time as those guys often have a lot of cash in the cab of the truck....I suppose the fact that these guys buy 300 gallons of gas at a time escapes some of these "police". This case does seem a bit odd though - 200k is a lot of money to be carrying around - but even so the "police" shouldn't be stealing it just because you have it...
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>>>This only happens in 'other' countries.
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>>>http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14643085/police-profiting-off-drug-trade
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>This was standard procedure in Florida during the 80's. I-95 was THE drug route for the east coast. Dunno if they still do.
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>They had many court challenges about it, but usually all those did was reinforce the reason for the stops - the dirtbags heading back from drug sales up north with hundreds of thousands of $$ cash with no visible means of support were blatently obvious.

Yes it's one of those things where someone is going to bitch about it now mater what the cops do. If some dirtbag is driving down one of the popular drug-route highways and gets pulled over with 1/4 million dollars in his car and the cops DONT take it then everyone is going to complain about it because it's obvious what's really going on. They DO take it then everyone will gripe about that too. This article seems to be geared more towards the fact that the cops are simply chasing down money and not ending up with any criminals or drugs - which I suppose is another problem in itself. Now see if the drugs were simply legal then all these problem would go away..haha