Stopped in motor home for going too slow on I-80
This just goes to show how things can escalate to a huge problem when you are just driving along minding your own business. Kinda hard to believe this goes on. Motor home stopped for going too slow
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rgatijnet1 wrote:Skid Row Joe wrote:rgatijnet1 wrote:It's very dangerous to deal in large sums of cash. BTW, you're not correct on the seizure issue - it happens every day in every State, Do not carry around large sums - whatever that number is to you that you don't wish to have seized legally by LE.
I sold one of my Classic cars and the man drove down from North Carolina and paid me $56,000 in cash.
I also have bought cars in different parts of the country and cash is the easiest/only way to buy something from a private party that will not take a check or credit card. Wire transfers cannot be done unless you have made prior arrangements with your bank, in person, before you left.
In any case, it is not against the law to carry any amount of cash in your RV as long as you do not try to leave the USA. There is also no law that says that you have to put your money in a bank, or even have a bank account. This is just to warn you of what may happen as you travel.
I agree, it is dangerous, but that does not make it illegal. Also please tell me how law enforcement could legally seize the money that I received for selling my Classic car if I was carrying it with me, which I did do for a period of time. I should add that during a search of my coach, if I was on my way to Maryland, where my Son lives, I may be transporting several pistols, several rifles, and a few thousand rounds of ammo.
I understand that it happens and I understand the comment from a former officer that taking the profit from criminal activities is a good tool to use but how does that justify the police doing it to everyone that they suspect may be committing a crime because they are found to be carrying a large amount of cash?
How can law enforcement legally seize the money? Well there is this big group of people in this big building with a dome on top that's in Washington DC. They have passed laws that said law enforcement could seize this money in order to take the profit out of criminal activity. Once they passed the law a guy in a big White House signed that into law. The cops did not decide on their own to go out and take money. There are Federal Laws and there are State laws in each state that allow for civil forfeiture of property suspected of being gains from criminal activity. And in each state a group of people in a big building came up with those state laws and a Governor signed them. Is that explanation enough?
And you tell this great story of selling a car for a large amount of cash. Yet you don't tell us about law enforcement coming and seizing that cash from you. How come law enforcement didn't seize your cash? Could it be because you aren't a drug dealer or a criminal and you didn't do anything to draw the attention of law enforcement to your cash? Funny how that works isn't it?
