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Texas Police Take Money

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ninapanama

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This happened in Beaumont, Orange County, Texas. My boyfriend and his friend drove down there to look at land to buy some. We are planning to buy land to get in that business.
A white truck was in the lane next to them for awhile when all of a sudden it backs up, gets behind them, and starts flashing his lights. The cop gets out and asks for lisence and registration. My boyfriend didn't have his liscense and gave them his passport. The cop states the reason he pulled him over was because he was swerving. He starts questioning my boyfriend and then the second cop pulls his friend out of the car and starts to question him on where they are heading. One of the cops looks around the car with a flashlight trying to look for drugs and found nothing.
The cop separates them and starts trying to pin them against each other but got frustrated when they couldn't. They asked my boyfriend if they could search in the car, and my boyfriend said no. They called the K-9 to look for nonexistent drugs. The dog came and went around twice and only jumped when the cop whispered something in its ear.
The cop said that the dog was interested and they were going to search the car. They didn't find a thing and asked my boyfriend if he had currency. He said yes. They said how much. He said $25000 or so. The cops confiscated the money and didn't count it because "He didn't trust his own judgement and will hand it over to a bank." He gave my boyfriend a signed form and that was it.
Could the cops have taken the money? What are the chances my boyfriend will see this money again? This is money he saved up for our future and now the cops took it. Could a lawyer in our state of Virginia take this case against these incompetent cops?

Thanks in advance!

Nina
 


dimond58

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Texas,large amount of cash.... gee i wonder what the cops were thinking. maybe drug buy. If he can prove where the money came from and if the person selling the land will back his story about the land deal an attorney should be able to recover the money. the form the police gave him did it have the EXACT amount of cash taken? good luck
 
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DRGONZO

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Driving down I-10 going or coming near Houston with out-of-state plates is no less than a big moving bullseye for the locall police. You will get stopped and you will get searched and I agree that with the amount of cash they had it looks pretty dicey. Same suggestion, find a local Atty.
 
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zippa

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nina you one dumb little chick-a-dee

$2500 cash no license, boy did the boy friend pull the wool over your eyes...

i think you need to dump the boyfriend... fast, before he does something stupid and gets YOU in trouble with the law!
 

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