Detroit Escorts: EDITORIAL: Seizure laws: Lawmakers should rein in civil forfeiture abuses
February 18, 2010 at 5:00 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsThe News reported abuses in which people basically were robbed by police. In once case a man talked briefly with a decoy prostitute. He was not charged with solicitation, and the decoy even stated in her report that the man did not solicit her for sex. Yet his vehicle was seized after the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department checked his record and saw a prior conviction for solicitation.
In another instance a woman’s 2-year-old Chrysler Sebring was seized after she picked up a co-worker at a bank. Police said the co-worker had stood on the street corner making eye contact with passing motorists in the same manner a prostitute would. Neither women, both Red Cross employees wearing work badges at the time, were charged with a crime. However, the car was seized anyway and the owner paid more than $1,400 in impound, towing and storage fees.
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