{"id":5881,"date":"2014-03-18T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2014-03-18T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:23:42","slug":"the-police-can-take-your-cash-without-charging-you-with-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/the-police-can-take-your-cash-without-charging-you-with-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"THE POLICE CAN TAKE YOUR CASH WITHOUT CHARGING YOU WITH A CRIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the district attorney\u2019s office in Humboldt County, Nevada, agreed to return the $50,000 that had been seized from Tan Nguyen during a traffic stop on September 23, 2013. Nguyen had never been charged with a crime, much less convicted of anything\u2014Humboldt County sheriff\u2019s deputy Lee Dove pulled him over for allegedly going three miles over the speed limit, then searched his car without permission (though the cops claim consent was given) and found what Nguyen said was gambling winnings. The 37-year-old California resident\u2019s luck clearly ran out when he was stopped by Dove, however, and according to his lawsuit, Nguyen was given a choice\u2014give up his money or try to get home without his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/the-police-can-take-your-cash-without.html\">THE POLICE CAN TAKE YOUR CASH WITHOUT CHARGING YOU WITH A CRIME<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the district attorney\u2019s office in Humboldt County, Nevada, agreed to return the $50,000 that had been seized from Tan Nguyen during a traffic stop on September 23, 2013. Nguyen had never been charged with a crime, much less convicted of anything\u2014Humboldt County sheriff\u2019s deputy Lee Dove pulled him over for allegedly going three miles over the speed limit, then searched his car without permission (though the cops claim consent was given) and found what Nguyen said was gambling winnings. The 37-year-old California resident\u2019s luck clearly ran out when he was stopped by Dove, however, and according to his lawsuit, Nguyen was given a choice\u2014give up his money or try to get home without his vehicle. via THE POLICE CAN TAKE YOUR CASH WITHOUT CHARGING YOU WITH A CRIME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1351],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}