Forfeiture Insanity: Three Cars for Oxycontin Possession
Thatâs right possession. Via The Agitator, the Morris County Prosecutorâs Office in New Jersey has gone crazy, drug war style. Theyâre cracking down on prescription drug abuse, primarily by indiscriminately confiscating automobiles from all sorts of people, including a cop.
From dailyrecord.com:
Parent Gerard Trapp, a Bloomfield police officer, said the seizure of three family cars is extreme, since neither he nor his wife knew of any alleged drug use by their son, and Trapp Jr. was charged with a relatively minor offense. He was never accused of being a dealer or supplier.
This sort of mind-numbing injustice comes naturally to many local-level drug warriors. Iâm shocked, but only sort of, having been recently shocked over and over again by equally horrible tales of forfeiture abuse.
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