MURRIETA: Cash seized by Border Patrol
By The Californian | ∞
MURRIETA ---- U.S. Border Patrol agents seized $34,000 Monday that they suspect was connected with the sale of illegal narcotics, officials said.
About 2:30 p.m., agents stopped a Toyota Previa minivan traveling north on Interstate 15 near Murrieta, according to a news release.
Driving the van was a 39-year-old Mexican man illegally traveling in the United States, the release states.
With the assistance of a California Highway Patrol officer and a search dog, a plastic grocery bag filled with the money was found in the van's glove compartment.
Agents said the money smelled of marijuana.
Agents seized the money and the van and processed the man for deportation, officials said.
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Thats Great Now... wrote on Nov 12, 2008 9:01 PM:Keep it up!
McCainiac wrote on Nov 13, 2008 7:00 AM:it took a dog to find money in the glove compartment?Yeh, great job guys keep it up.With agents as savvy as you guys the drug dealers do not have a chance.I never read the probable cause for the initial stop?It's not illegal to have money,yet.
To McCainiac wrote on Nov 13, 2008 7:45 AM:Just because the probable cause for the stop is not listed in the article doesn't mean that there wasn't probable cause. They caught an illegal alien with drug money, so whatever probable cause they had for the stop appears to be founded. ...
the smell of money wrote on Nov 13, 2008 8:13 AM:The money "smelled like marijuana"? That's suspicious? Well, I know of $700 billion going through the Dept of Treasury laundromat right now that they can't get to stop smelling like fish. Let's send our Scoobie Doo agent to Washington in his green car and make some big time arrests.
Fact not in evidence wrote on Nov 13, 2008 8:22 AM:Nowhere does it say that the dog found the money. The dog assisted, as did a CHP officer, and neither of which the article gives sole credit for the discovery. If the dog did find it, then it did exactly what law enforcement trained it to do. It is not illegal to have money, provided it smells like money and not weed. If you believe the man was stopped without probable cause, go hire him a lawyer and fight it. Otherwise, shut..., McCainiac.
LocalDeputy wrote on Nov 13, 2008 10:09 AM:Reading Comprehension!, did some of you miss this subject during your school years? This article, although, informative, lacks detail. Maybe you folks should focus your anger at the illegal alien and the fact that some of you CITIZENS support his buisness. Now with Democrats in the majority, immigration enforcement will lack funds and rehabilitation will be principal.
to Deputy Dog wrote on Nov 13, 2008 11:54 AM:Yes, I am angry at the alien. I am even gnashing my teeth and foaming at the mouth. Grrr. Arrrrgh. Hissssss. There. I got it out of my system. Now, why did you guys let this alien get across the border? If you were doing your jobs, we wouldn't have drug dealing illegals being chased through our streets. Remember the kids who died in Temecula when a border patrol chase ended at a high school crosswalk? THEY DIED!!! Well, now that Dems control things you'll have an even better excuse. Why don't you just get your rear end down to the border and do your job? BTW,are you blogging while on duty?
BTW ALSO: I support more funding for the border patrol. AT THE BORDER! I support the right AND THE DUTY of local police to arrest illegals. I also support cops who do a good job, and who don't make excuses for their own bungled jobs.
rob wrote on Nov 13, 2008 1:10 PM:Jeeez! Chill out! We humans in geographical time been here les then 1% of a fration of a fraction of a fraction. Do you know how insignificant our planet looks from the next galaxie. If you put things into prespective you would not mind our neighbors south of the border so much. Don't be so afraid! After all we're the ones who set up shop next to their yard or in their yard. In the last 500 yrs.
McCainiac wrote on Nov 13, 2008 4:57 PM:Regan invented and promoted narco politics you neo-con hypocrite's.And please explain to me how money smells like pot.You roll weed in money and then you smoke it?Bush did nothing to stop the flow,the number of illegals grew at the same rate as the deficit.
FYI wrote on Nov 14, 2008 9:02 AM:Money can smell like pot. Pot smoke, much like the smell of a campfire, has it's own oder which can permeate fabric, such as money.
I too remember the deaths of the children near the high school in Temecula...I also remember all the wonderful work the Boarder Patrol has done for this "these" communities way before we had, CHP, Sheriff, stationed in this area. Good work guys!!!
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