Policing for profit

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#2
"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.
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Ridiculous.
 
#3
#3
Yeah, it's crazy. Napolitano talked about the TSA confiscating cash like this in his book, and I almost didn't believe it.

BTW, I recently have been turned away from both Little Caesar's, and a local burger joint for trying to pay with $100 bills. Cash is no longer king.
 
#5
#5
Ridiculous but not totally surprising.

I would have denied him permission to search my vehicle.
 
#11
#11
The officer conveniently omitted from his report that Reby was willing to provide proof that he was involved in multiple ebay bids on cars. Pathetic.

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.




George Reby said that he told Monterey officers that "I had active bids on EBay, that I was trying to buy a vehicle. They just didn't want to hear it."

In fact, Reby had proof on his computer.

But the Monterey officer drew up a damning affidavit, citing his own training that "common people do not carry this much U.S. currency."
Read Officer Bates' affidavit

"On the street, a thousand-dollar bundle could approximately buy two ounces of cocaine," Bates told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.

"Or the money could have been used to buy a car," we observed.

"It's possible," he admitted.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Bates if Reby had told him that he was trying to buy a car?

"He did," the officer acknowledged.

"But you did not include that in your report," we noted.

"If it's not in there, I didn't put it in there."

So why did he leave that out?

"I don't know," the officer said.

Bates also told the judge the money was hidden inside "a tool bag underneath trash to [deter] law enforcement from locating it."

"That's inaccurate," Reby said. "I pulled out the bag and gave it to him."
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#14
#14
It also mentions they are targeting out-of-state motorists. Yeah, Tennessee doesn't rely on tourists with wads of cash, at all. We should stop them from toting piles of it into the state so they can spend it here, right now!
 
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therealUT said:
Haha...you are a buffoon.
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No, your just stupid if you don't think dealers change their couriers often. At one time it was single women dressed in business attire, changed to single male college students. I once stopped a motor home driven by a homeless couple from Calif. They were told to drive the RV to a park in Fla and leave it. They were paid 3,000. The RV had a false bottom in it.
 
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punkcat said:
No, your just stupid if you don't think dealers change their couriers often. At one time it was single women dressed in business attire, changed to single male college students. I once stopped a motor home driven by a homeless couple from Calif. They were told to drive the RV to a park in Fla and leave it. They were paid 3,000. The RV had a false bottom in it.
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Yore.

And, you completely missed my point.
 
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punkcat said:
No, your just stupid if you don't think dealers change their couriers often. At one time it was single women dressed in business attire, changed to single male college students. I once stopped a motor home driven by a homeless couple from Calif. They were told to drive the RV to a park in Fla and leave it. They were paid 3,000. The RV had a false bottom in it.
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so then did you pull over all women dressed in business attire and then move on to single male college students? Do you now pull over every RV and search it?
 
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utvolpj said:
so then did you pull over all women dressed in business attire and then move on to single male college students? Do you now pull over every RV and search it?
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When the profile is "citizen", everyone fits the profile.
 
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