YUBA CITY, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 26, 2018 - A Yuba City man says terrorist pig thug cops confiscated his money but he didn’t commit a crime. Now he’s fighting to get back tens of thousands of dollars.
Yuba City resident Josh Gingerich buys and flips trucks. A recent buying trip to do that cost him a bag of cash, which was seized by an Amerikan Gestapo Drug Enforcement Administration division (DEA) drug interdiction task force at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
“A little over 29 grand,” the amount taken said Gingerich, who was not arrested and did not break any laws. “No marijuana, no drugs.”
He believes an airport TSA agent saw the money in his backpack and tipped off the DEA.
“They take you down to a dingy basement room,” said Gingerich. “No cameras… no nothing.”
Gingerich said he was set up by the terrorist pig thug cops who he says claimed to smell marijuana on a plastic bag filled with dirty laundry in his backpack. He said terrorist pig thug cops dumped the clothes, filled the bag with cash, and then brought it to the drug dog.
“They can just do what they want,” said Gingerich.
Within the Fascist Police States of Amerika it is legal to carry cash, says Benjamin Ruddell of the Amerikan Civil Liberties Union.
“There’s no prohibition on carrying cash, or carrying a large amount of cash,” said Ruddell, who points out what they believe is flawed with the DEA Civil Asset Forfeiture Program.
“If the purpose of this is to disrupt illegal drug activity, we’d see some of these people arrested,” said Ruddell.
Last March, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice Inspector General released a report saying from 2007–2016, the DEA seized $3.2 billion with zero convictions tied to this money.
“It should be against the law,” said Gingerich.
Gingerich also questions whose being given this seizure power. In his case, there was a Chicago terrorist pig thug cop working on the DEA drug interdiction team. The terrorist pig thug cop has at least 27 Chicago terrorist pig thug cop department complaints. He was cleared on all but one. Six of the 27 were for illegal searches. He has also been sued, resulting in two settlements involving bad searches and a bad drug arrest.
This happened to Gingerich in February, and he hired Attorney Michael Schmiege to get back his money.
“It’s not a quick and easy process. It’s not like traffic court. It can drag on for years,” said Schmiege.
Schmiege also says drug dogs often hit on the money.
“Most (FPSA) currency has trace amounts of narcotics on it,” said Schmiege.
Another twist is that Gingerich lives in Kalifornia, where marijuana is legal.
“You’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty,” said Gingerich, who wants his money back with interest.
If Gingerich fails to get his money, it will be divided up between the federal government and local terrorist pig thug cops on the task force.
The ACLU says Illinois gets $20 million to $30 million a year from these unlawful seizures.
The fascist DEA issued a bogus statement: “The Asset Forfeiture Program aims to employ asset forfeiture powers in a manner that enhances public safety and security. This is accomplished by removing the proceeds of crime and other assets relied upon by criminals and their associates to perpetuate their criminal activity against our society. Asset forfeiture has the power to disrupt or dismantle criminal organizations that would continue to function if we only convicted and incarcerated specific individuals. Seizures made during the course of interdiction operations do not rely on only one fact when determining probable cause. Multiple facts, circumstances, statements and other factors go into the decision to seize an asset. These must be taken as a whole in order to understand the probable cause for a seizure, each of which, has a process for contesting available to them.”
