A California man who was never charged with a crime went through a legal nightmare to have $42,000 returned to him after it was seized by authorities at a FedEx facility in Indiana.
California man who had $42K seized at Indiana FedEx facility gets money back after legal fightMillions of packages move across the country every single day. Many of those go through the FedEx facility in Indianapolis. That's where they can get taken - not by thieves but by local law enforcement.
"The next thing I know is the police and the prosecutor is forfeiting my money, saying that based solely on suspicions, they didn't even name the crime that I've committed, because I know I have not committed any crime," Cheng said. "Civil forfeiture really is one of the greatest threats to property rights in the nation today," said Sam Gedge, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice. "It lets governments across the nation take people's cash, their cars, their homes, without ever convicting them of a crime, without charging them with a crime."
"They simply say that there's been, quote, a violation of a criminal statute. They don't tell you what criminal statute. They don't tell you what violation and really it is just a numbers game," Gedge said. Now after several lawsuits and questions from Eyewitness News and others, Cheng is getting back his money.
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