and then like magic, criminal convictions everywhere.
I doubt it. The worst stories I read about asset forfeiture were things like, grandson sell a quarter pound of pot on grandmas front porch. The police seize grandmas house. Grandma never was convicted or even charged with the crime.
What about the stories like the guy who used his own equipment to divert water running the a ditch on his own property to avoid flooding his own house and then comes the government with eminent domain and destroy him with fines and endless lawyer fees trying to battle it in court until he caved and surrenders his land. Maybe I’m confusing the eminent domain part but I know this stuff happens. I’ve seen things like this, personally.
I dont think fines count as imminent domain. Usually with water rights theyll tell you to fix something and if you don't they start adding fines and eventually they will take your house.
I've got a better one. A dude with a sought after location freehold property/ life style farm has an intrusion of 'shadowy figures' accessing his property, lo and behold a drug enforcement helicopter takes surveillance photos of what appear to be a 'few pots of cannibus plants' hidden in this trees, after disposing of these several times, a drug raid finds the remains of the pots n plant material , charge him and then seize the entire farm under asset forfeiture - which iirc is then sold at police auction to a member of the city council who had previously enquired about purchasing the block but was told by the original owner to jack off not for sale....
Puts the road pirate's confiscating peoples cash (just as bad) from the side of the road into a little perspective.
Yea i heard one of the road pirates jacking a guy for 15k he was gonna use to get a new freezer for his restaurant
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