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Feds Refusing To Return $46,000 in Cash Seized During Traffic Stop

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The driver of the car had no illegal drugs in the car when he was stopped on Route I-95 in New Hampshire, but a police dog determined that there had been drugs in an empty bag. A New Hampshire state trooper seized the cash on the theory that it was drug money and the federal government wants to keep it; but a third party has come forward and says the money is rightfully his.

The driver of the car had no illegal drugs in the car when he was stopped on Route I-95 in New Hampshire, but a police dog determined that there had been drugs in an empty bag. A New Hampshire state trooper seized the cash on the theory that it was drug money and the federal government wants to keep it; but a third party has come forward and says the money is rightfully his.…