Nevada Highway Patrol Officers Seize Veteran Stephen Lara's $87,000 Life Savings Through Asset Forfeiture

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Watch Nevada Highway Patrol Officers Seize a Veteran's Life Savings Through Asset Forfeiture
The officers admit there's nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash, then take almost $90,000 from him anyway.

1 December 2021

"I just want to tell you Officer Brown, you're taking money out of my kids' mouths," Stephen Lara said as Nevada Highway Patrol officers confiscated his life savings. Police pulled over Lara near Reno on February 19. After he consented to a search, the officers discovered nearly $90,000 in bundled cash in Lara's backpack. Although Lara was not arrested or charged with a crime, the officers claimed the money was drug trafficking proceeds and seized through a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The government has since agreed to return Lara's money, and on Tuesday, the Institute for Justice, a ...

Watch Nevada Highway Patrol Officers Seize a Veteran's Life Savings Through Asset Forfeiture

The officers admit there's nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash, then take almost $90,000 from him anyway.

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WATCH: Thieving Cops Steal Innocent Retired Marine’s Life Savings, $86K Because It Smelled Like Drugs

4 December 2021

Stephen Lara dedicated 20 years of his life to serving this country as a United States Marine. This father of two served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking his life to protect a political system only to be chewed up and spit out by that very system when he returned. Because this system is set up to extract revenue through various means of extortion and theft, when armed agents of the state robbed Lara of his life savings on the side of the road, everything they did was considered “legal.” In February of this year, Lara was driving from ...

WATCH: Thieving Cops Steal Innocent Retired Marine's Life Savings, $86K Because It Smelled Like Drugs

An innocent man was pulled over for doing absolutely nothing wrong and cops robbed him of his life savings, leaving him stranded on the side of the road.

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DEA Gives Former Marine Back $86,900 Cops Took From Him During A Nevada Traffic Stop Caught On Body Cam

22 December 2021

Because law enforcement just can't stop taking money from innocent people, here's another roadside shitshow that has resulted in an attempt to force the government to give back money it flat out stole. This one has a couple of twists. First, it involves body cameras, so the whole depressing farce can actually be watched as it unfolds. The second twist is the federal government, which arrived (via cell phone) to pitch in with the theft. This is what happened to Stephen Lara, 16-year military veteran and innocent person, as he traveled through Nevada on his way to visit his daughters ...

DEA Gives Former Marine Back $86,900 Cops Took From Him During A Nevada Traffic Stop Caught On Body Cam

Because law enforcement just can't stop taking money from innocent people, here's another roadside shitshow that has resulted in an attempt to force the government to give back money it flat out stole. This one has a couple of twists...

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