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Shaking down illegals!!Quote:
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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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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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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Don't like it? Stay home.
GAWD Bless Texas.
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