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ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck (driver) whose money was seized

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. â€” A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly $24,000 seized by DEA agents earlier this month at a weigh station on U.S. 54 in New Mexico north of El Paso, Texas...

DEA agents told Prieto he would receive a notice of federal proceedings to permanently forfeit the money within 30 days and that to get it back, he'd have to prove it was his and did not come from illegal drug sales...
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Remember, "they hate us for our freedoms"Â©

"The government took Mr. Prieto's money as surely as if he had been robbed on a street corner at night," Simonson said. "In fact, being robbed might have been better. At least then the police would have treated him as the victim of a crime instead of as a perpetrator."
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5081398.html

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