Nevada Judge to Nevada Cops: You Can't Use This Loophole To Get Around Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

“The local department gets up to 80 percent of the forfeiture proceeds, and the rest goes into a Justice Department pool that is doled out to other participating departments around the country.”

Nevada troopers took about $90,000 from a Marine veteran without charging a crime and handed the case to the DEA. The federal program sends up to 80% of the money back to the local department. A judge ruled Nevada police cannot use it to dodge the state’s forfeiture reform. More than half the states have reformed, and police route around it exactly this way.