The two men told the officer the gold did not belong to them, Curry said. "So he can't give it back to them and let them go on down the road, it's not theirs," she explained.
Well... I'm sure the gold was the least of their worries.
Curry said she expects her office will use most of its share to purchase new vehicles for lawyers and investigators on the team.
"For a small county like ours, it’s a big, big relief for the taxpayers," she said. "Even if I can’t say exactly what [crime] it was, why should they be able to profit off of it? Why should it not go back into to fighting crime in our communities?"
Two Chinese nationals arrested after being stopped on I-20 with $250,000 in gold bars will not face money laundering charges and have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Van Zandt County District Attorney said Monday.
A Wills Point police officer arrested Weijian Chen, 25, and Wenqiang Lin, 46, in early August after he pulled over the Chevy sedan the men were driving for following another vehicle too closely, arrest documents showed.
Throw it into our Texas gold reserve the reserve in which we don't have any gold whatsoever!! This was a shocker when the Texas strategic bitcoin reserve hearings were going on they sell if off for oil and other things.....
Good ole civil asset forfeiture huh?
They claimed the gold wasn't theirs I guess:
Well... I'm sure the gold was the least of their worries.
probably slippage from fort knox lol
edit: n/m chinese gold
Two Chinese nationals arrested after being stopped on I-20 with $250,000 in gold bars will not face money laundering charges and have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Van Zandt County District Attorney said Monday.
A Wills Point police officer arrested Weijian Chen, 25, and Wenqiang Lin, 46, in early August after he pulled over the Chevy sedan the men were driving for following another vehicle too closely, arrest documents showed.
It's budget neutral baby!
https://finitesupply.co/products/strategic-reserve-gold-and-black-trucker
I was going to pass on it, but those vibes though...
How to get out of a traffic ticket:
Step 1. Carry $250K in gold in your trunk.
Step 2. When stopped by police, tell them that you don't know whose it is, but if you're charged you'll probably have to go look through your records.
Bitcoin fixes this
Throw it into our Texas gold reserve the reserve in which we don't have any gold whatsoever!! This was a shocker when the Texas strategic bitcoin reserve hearings were going on they sell if off for oil and other things.....
While I don't like the idea of civil forfetuire (and theft) residing illegally in a country is a criminal offence.
If I was residing illegally and got stopped with 250K of anything in my vehicle, I might expect some repercussions, no?