Example:
>When Brandy Cooke dropped her friend off at a Myrtle Beach sports bar as a favor, drug enforcement agents swarmed her in the parking lot and found $4,670 in the car.
>Her friend was wanted in a drug distribution case, but Cooke wasn’t involved. She had no drugs and was never charged in the 2014 bust. Agents seized her money anyway.
>She worked as a waitress and carried cash because she didn’t have a checking account. She spent more than a year trying to get her money back.
Does the excuse pass the sniff test with anyone. A waitress carries her entire savings (she's doing well having savings!) on her to work every day? The idea that she was an accessory to something, like her friend passed her the money when they were stopped, seems much more believable to me??
It's kinda crazy that the police can take money and not return it when no crime is proven though, this seems to be a good TL;DR:
>Greenville attorney Jake Erwin said the overarching idea is that the money being seized is earnings from past drug sales, so it's fair game. “In theory, that makes a little bit of sense," he said. "The problem is that they don’t really have to prove that.”