Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undo ented immigrants
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A rural sheriff near the Texas border is under criminal investigation for allegedly having his deputies illegally seize money and a truck from undo ented immigrants during traffic stops
raided four Real County Sheriff’s Office locations as part of an investigation into Sheriff Nathan Johnson,
Johnson admitted to regularly seizing money from undo ented immigrants during traffic stops, even if they were not accused of any state crime, before handing them over to United States Border Patrol agents.
One sheriff's deputy told investigators that “seizing currency from undo ented immigrants and the driver has been standard operation procedure for as long as he has been employed by the Real County Sheriff’s Office,”
accused Johnson of felony-level theft by a public servant and abuse of official capacity, alleging
the sheriff’s cash and vehicle seizures were in violation of the state’s relatively lenient civil asset forfeiture laws.
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