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87 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Mar \ parent \ on: No charges for $250K in gold found during traffic stop, but Texas will keep it news
They claimed the gold wasn't theirs I guess:
The two men told the officer the gold did not belong to them, Curry said. "So he can't give it back to them and let them go on down the road, it's not theirs," she explained.
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51 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 25 Mar
Well... I'm sure the gold was the least of their worries.
Curry said she expects her office will use most of its share to purchase new vehicles for lawyers and investigators on the team.
"For a small county like ours, it’s a big, big relief for the taxpayers," she said. "Even if I can’t say exactly what [crime] it was, why should they be able to profit off of it? Why should it not go back into to fighting crime in our communities?"
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 25 Mar
probably slippage from fort knox lol
edit: n/m chinese gold
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 25 Mar
Two Chinese nationals arrested after being stopped on I-20 with $250,000 in gold bars will not face money laundering charges and have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Van Zandt County District Attorney said Monday.
A Wills Point police officer arrested Weijian Chen, 25, and Wenqiang Lin, 46, in early August after he pulled over the Chevy sedan the men were driving for following another vehicle too closely, arrest documents showed.
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