Cash that smells like pot equals probable cause

Comment #8

pacattack05 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:35:33 GMT

I'm sorry, but the Saudis have an issue...lol

Comment #7

JAP69 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:25:39 GMT

A family was traveling on vacation and preffered to have cash for the trip. They were stopped on the highway for some reason and the cash was taken from them by the d e a. Probable cause. Vacation cut short and a lenghty haul to get the money back.

Comment #6

JAP69 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:21:27 GMT

I carry cash all the time when I have it LOL. I could be stopped and come under scrutiny for carrying too much cash. I know someone who use to walk around with no less than 10,000 dollars on him. He quit doing that for reasons mentioned. He said it was for purchases of something he may want right then and there. Legal purchases that is for autos or whatever.

Comment #5

justxploring — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:00:07 GMT

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/APC0101/80324079/1979/frontpage

Comment #4

justxploring — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:55:03 GMT

Oh, I just read what you wrote again, so please disregard my question about the search warrant. If he's still on probation, then they can stop him for sneezing.

Comment #3

justxploring — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:46:15 GMT

Jake, thanks for your post. This is disturbing to me. I am wondering how the police were able to get a legal search warrant. I mean, this was in Wisconsin so maybe he had been eating some cheese! Okay - here's another article about this incident. "bagged marijuana" is different from a bag of marijuana. Sounds as if he was a dealer. http://media.www.ntdaily.com/media/storage/paper877/news/2008/03/26/Opinion/Man-Arrested.For.Money.Smelling.Like.Marijuana-328340... [ More ]

Comment #2

time*treat — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:14:31 GMT

Annoyed, yes. Paranoid, no. Thing is, we tend to judge the action by the results. If the cops had found pipe bombs or bodies in the guy's house, the teller would be hailed as a hero. Now they'll just be regarded as a busybody. Did anyone notice that although the money "smelled funny" the bank allowed the deposit? :-)

Comment #1

LOTTOMIKE — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:41:43 GMT

bothers me too on several levels including the fact that everyone is so damn paranoid post 9/11 especially.hell the guy might've smoked some pot before he went to deposit his money.i don't drink,smoke or do drugs anymore but back in my prime i smoked enough weed to supply an army but i'm one of those i've got to have it all go to excess type of people and drink almost killed me so i just quit everything and cleaned my slate and that includes smoking cigs too.i think a lot of this is going way overboard with the probable cause thing.... [ More ]

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Jake — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:11:58 GMT