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Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants
Last month, investigators with the Texas Rangers and the Texas Attorney General's Office raided four Real County Sheriff's Office locations as part of an investigation into Sheriff Nathan Johnson, according to search warrants obtained this week by The Texas Tribune. The investigating Texas Ranger said Johnson admitted to regularly seizing money from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops, even if they were not accused of any state crime, before handing them over to United States Border Patrol agents.

One sheriff's deputy told investigators that "seizing currency from undocumented immigrants and the driver has been standard operation procedure for as long as he has been employed by the Real County Sheriff's Office," Texas Ranger Ricardo Guajardo wrote in the warrant requests.

Guajardo accused Johnson of felony-level theft by a public servant and abuse of official capacity, alleging the sheriff's cash and vehicle seizures were in violation of the state's relatively lenient civil asset forfeiture laws.

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Shaking down illegals!!

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Body camera footage of a May 2021 traffic stop taken by a sheriff's deputy from neighboring Edwards County showed Johnson directing his deputies to seize money and a truck from undocumented immigrants. The seized money was to be filed as abandoned cash and deposited into the Real County general fund, Guajardo detailed. Johnson said he would try to find the truck's registered owners, but after 30 days the vehicle would also be considered abandoned.

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Profit! $$$$$$$$$$$$

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During another traffic stop in October, more than $2,700 in cash taken from three immigrants' wallets was said to be marked as evidence while waiting to see if human smuggling charges against the driver would stick. The other two men were referred to Border Patrol, where they asked what had happened to the money in their wallets. Guajardo said the seizing deputy couldn't say under what authority the money was taken, just that Johnson told him to take it.

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This is Texas GAWDDAMMIT!
Sheriffs are our Lords of the County Line!
Don't like it? Stay home.
GAWD Bless Texas.

hmmm.. frankly I'm a bit skeptical.
But that's why we have courts.

ironmanag said:

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So it's okay for the dems to pay illegals.

It's okay to allow covid to flow through our borders.

It's okay for illegals to rape and muderder US citizens after being deported

But by GOD THIS IS WHERE YOU DRAW THE LINE!!

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I'll take "None of these things is ok" for $500, Alex.

B-1 83 said:

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ironmanag said:

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So it's okay for the dems to pay illegals.

It's okay to allow covid to flow through our borders.

It's okay for illegals to rape and muderder US citizens after being deported

But by GOD THIS IS WHERE YOU DRAW THE LINE!!

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I'll take "None of these things is ok" for $500, Alex.

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Oh I agree, but the OP seems to ignore the other to only attack the LEO.

Deposited in the General Fund....
Sounds like Genius.
Libs just upset their laundered investment is getting caught and going back to the taxpayers.

Yep
We should call Ken Paxton and tell him to STUFU on this.

ironmanag said:

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So it's okay for the dems to pay illegals.

It's okay to allow covid to flow through our borders.

It's okay for illegals to rape and muderder US citizens after being deported

But by GOD THIS IS WHERE YOU DRAW THE LINE!!

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Yeah, that was my first thought.

Not guilty!

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This is the argument that illegals should be given things like Driver's Licenses.

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wut?
No one is talking about this Stretch.

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If you are an illegal and the Sheriff "shakes you down," you and the Sheriff both know the illegal can't go to the authorities without being deported.

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They are turned over to BP and most likely never seen again.

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But, it is also like prostitution and drug dealing. You can't go to a cap and say, "He stole my heroin."

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Caps gonna cap.

Why didn't he just go for civil asset forfeiture her? That seems to work really well on American citizens.

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ironmanag said:

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So it's okay for the dems to pay illegals.

It's okay to allow covid to flow through our borders.

It's okay for illegals to rape and muderder US citizens after being deported

But by GOD THIS IS WHERE YOU DRAW THE LINE!!

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I'll take "None of these things is ok" for $500, Alex.

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It should not be OK, but it is quite literally OK and being done.

No problem here... take their cash and send them back.

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Oh I agree, but the OP seems to ignore the other to only attack the LEO.

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Just like this guy.

and this guy


Rather be in their company than yours.

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Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants
Last month, investigators with the Texas Rangers and the Texas Attorney General's Office raided four Real County Sheriff's Office locations as part of an investigation into Sheriff Nathan Johnson, according to search warrants obtained this week by The Texas Tribune. The investigating Texas Ranger said Johnson admitted to regularly seizing money from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops, even if they were not accused of any state crime, before handing them over to United States Border Patrol agents.

One sheriff's deputy told investigators that "seizing currency from undocumented immigrants and the driver has been standard operation procedure for as long as he has been employed by the Real County Sheriff's Office," Texas Ranger Ricardo Guajardo wrote in the warrant requests.

Guajardo accused Johnson of felony-level theft by a public servant and abuse of official capacity, alleging the sheriff's cash and vehicle seizures were in violation of the state's relatively lenient civil asset forfeiture laws.

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Shaking down illegals!!

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Body camera footage of a May 2021 traffic stop taken by a sheriff's deputy from neighboring Edwards County showed Johnson directing his deputies to seize money and a truck from undocumented immigrants. The seized money was to be filed as abandoned cash and deposited into the Real County general fund, Guajardo detailed. Johnson said he would try to find the truck's registered owners, but after 30 days the vehicle would also be considered abandoned.

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Profit! $$$$$$$$$$$$

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During another traffic stop in October, more than $2,700 in cash taken from three immigrants' wallets was said to be marked as evidence while waiting to see if human smuggling charges against the driver would stick. The other two men were referred to Border Patrol, where they asked what had happened to the money in their wallets. Guajardo said the seizing deputy couldn't say under what authority the money was taken, just that Johnson told him to take it.

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This is Texas GAWDDAMMIT!
Sheriffs are our Lords of the County Line!
Don't like it? Stay home.
GAWD Bless Texas.

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Feds need to step in a send a clear message. That's type of abuse of power and illegal activity by a sherif should be punished to the hugest degree.

48 hour rule. This seems like a pro-illegal hit job.

One of them was caught on camera by a bodycam from a deputy from neighboring county that was on the scene. I highly doubt someone from Edwards County would be in on this, as they are likely experiencing the same issues with illegals.

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48 hour rule. This seems like a pro-illegal hit job.

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From 12/23/2021
Texas Rangers, Attorney General's Office investigating Real County Sheriff