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[Judge Tommy Turner]

Curt,
    Another note that I forgot to mention.  You ask about a receipt.  
Yes, by all means have the police count the money out in front of you 
(with all present witnessing it) and give you some sort of receipt 
verifying the amount.  You can write it on anything as long as you get 
at $ figure and signature.  Each state is different.  In KY, you are 
given an inventory of everything that is confiscated.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


> Tommy,
> In the event that something like this was to happen to one of us, what 
> is the proper procedure to assure that your money does not get stolen 
> from you by ruthless cops. Is there a form one asks for? Seems like 
> there needs to be some legal document (receipt) in place proving that 
> you indeed handed over X dollars in cash to a cop. I can see the very 
> real possibility that some or all the cash could be pocketed by an 
> individual or group of cops and the story would be "no judge, there 
> was no cash being carried by the individual" ! You could easily be out 
> of thousands of dollars.
> Curt
>
> Judge Tommy Turner wrote:
>
>> I know that some of this old iron is getting high to buy and 
>> sometimes we carry a bit of cash on us (especially if you are buying 
>> 2 or 3 engines, heading to a swap meet, etc).  Be aware that if you 
>> are stopped and its discovered that you have a significant amount of 
>> cash on you, it can be held until you prove where it came from.  Also 
>> you need to know that I have seen recent figures that 1 in 4 paper 
>> bills now have some trace of drugs on them due to the increasing drug 
>> traffic.  As a result, if you are lucky enough to get stopped by a 
>> patrolman with a dog and by chance happened to have several thousand 
>> in cash in your truck, the dog could possibly sniff drugs in your 
>> vehicle.  Next would come the search, then seizing of the cash, etc.  
>> I don't know the circumstances behind the situation in this article, 
>> but perhaps the young lad was heading to purchase one of the 
>> expensive large gas tractors (perhaps not too but he'll have to prove 
>> where it came from in order to get it back):
>>
>> http://press.ky.gov/PressClipDetail.asp?REC=189012
>>
>> Just a note to everyone to be aware of what could happen.  BTW, if 
>> you're traveling through central KY and happen to get stopped, feel 
>> free to have the officer call me (just tell him to call the LaRue 
>> County Courthouse and they can find me).  I'll verify that you are 
>> buying an old engine from me and are carrying a great deal of cash on 
>> you to pay for it.  Then, you can come to my place, we'll load up a 
>> Maytag, you can give me the cash and everyone's happy....
>>
>> Tommy Turner
>> Magnolia, KY
>>
>>
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