FYI, it is now illegal to carry American cash.

[lowthreeohz]

You might be right. i can't find much up to date info, but this is from TSA's FAQ...

Q. Will I be delayed during screening if I am carrying large amounts of cash?
A. TSA does not restrict passengers from carrying cash through our security checkpoints. However, when TSA discovers a passenger carrying a sum of cash that appears to be in excess of $10,000 and the passenger is traveling to a location outside of the United States, TSA may notify U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ensure compliance with international currency-reporting requirements. Also, TSA may notify law enforcement officers if cash is discovered during the security screening process that appears to be related to criminal activity based on factors such as the quantity, packaging, circumstances of discovery, or the method by which it is carried.

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/customer/editorial_1029.shtm

Again, i can't find ANYTHING regarding inter or intra state travel that bars you from carrying any amount of currency.

[Denny]

only in/out of the country. there is no law in texas that prevents you from carrying any amount of cash around on your person.

Not true anymore. Any travel over $9999 is what I was told.

[Denny]

I called the TSA and told them how much I was going to be carrying and they told me I better have proof of where I got that kind of money. Fuck this motherfucking place!!!

I also asked them what I would need to do with my firearms and told them what I was carrying as check-in luggage. They started asking me why I needed that many guns to go with me. Never even got an answer from that. The airline told me they were cool with it and how to bring it, but to also notify the TSA... fuck me.

I can't wait to see their faces when they see the other stuff. LOL!

Maybe I should take Alex Jones along to video this.

[JamisonFRC]

only in/out of the country. there is no law in texas that prevents you from carrying any amount of cash around on your person.

Thanks!

[lowthreeohz]

I believe, cannot say for sure, but to carry over $10k cash requires some type of declaration paperwork. In Texas he would get his money back at a property hearing as long as he can prove he obtained it by legal means.

I can't tell you the number of times I've found a few grand on someone and they tell me they just cashed their income tax check.

only in/out of the country. there is no law in texas that prevents you from carrying any amount of cash around on your person.

[JamisonFRC]

I believe, cannot say for sure, but to carry over $10k cash requires some type of declaration paperwork. In Texas he would get his money back at a property hearing as long as he can prove he obtained it by legal means.

I can't tell you the number of times I've found a few grand on someone and they tell me they just cashed their income tax check.

[helosailor]

his bank?

Nonsense, he couldn't have possibly waited for those ahead of him to complete their transactions.

[stevo]

This shit is happening in some podunk city in east Texas also, I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT: here it is-

TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.

That's because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: voluntarily sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.

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More than 140 people reluctantly accepted that deal from June 2006 to June 2008, according to court records. Among them were a black grandmother from Akron, who surrendered $4,000 in cash after Tenaha police pulled her over, and an interracial couple from Houston, who gave up more than $6,000 after police threatened to seize their children and put them into foster care, the court documents show. Neither the grandmother nor the couple were charged with any crime.

Officials in Tenaha, situated along a heavily traveled highway connecting Houston with popular gambling destinations in Louisiana, say they are engaged in a battle against drug trafficking and call the search-and-seizure practice a legitimate use of the state's asset-forfeiture law. That law permits local police agencies to keep drug money and other property used in the commission of a crime and add the proceeds to their budgets.

"We try to enforce the law here," said George Bowers, mayor of the town of 1,046 residents, where boarded-up businesses outnumber open ones and City Hall sports a broken window. "We're not doing this to raise money. That's all I'm going to say at this point."

But civil rights lawyers call Tenaha's practice something else: highway robbery. The attorneys have filed a federal class-action lawsuit to stop what they contend is an unconstitutional perversion of the law's intent, aimed primarily at blacks who have done nothing wrong.

Tenaha officials "have developed an illegal 'stop and seize' practice of targeting, stopping, detaining, searching and often seizing property from apparently non-white citizens and those traveling with non-white citizens," asserts the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.

The property seizures are not just happening in Tenaha. In southern parts of Texas near the Mexican border, for example, Hispanics allege that they are being singled out.

According to a prominent state legislator, police agencies across Texas are wielding the asset-forfeiture law more aggressively to supplement their shrinking operating budgets.

"If used properly, it's a good law-enforcement tool to see that crime doesn't pay," said state Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate's Criminal Justice Committee. "But in this instance, where people are being pulled over and their property is taken with no charges filed and no convictions, I think that's theft."

David Guillory, an attorney in Nacogdoches who filed the federal lawsuit, said he combed through Shelby County court records from 2006 to 2008 and discovered nearly 200 cases in which Tenaha police seized cash and property from motorists. In about 50 of the cases, suspects were charged with drug possession.

But in 147 others, Guillory said the court records showed, police seized cash, jewelry, cell phones and sometimes even automobiles from motorists but never found any contraband or charged them with any crime. Of those, Guillory said he managed to contact 40 of the motorists directly—and discovered all but one of them were black.

"The whole thing is disproportionately targeted toward minorities, particularly African-Americans," Guillory said. "None of these people have been charged with a crime, none were engaged in anything that looked criminal. The sole factor is that they had something that looked valuable."

In some cases, police used the fact that motorists were carrying large amounts of cash as evidence that they must have been involved in laundering drug money, even though Guillory said each of the drivers he contacted could account for where the money had come from and why they were carrying it—such as for a gambling trip to Shreveport, La., or to purchase a used car from a private seller.

Once the motorists were detained, the police and the local Shelby County district attorney quickly drew up legal papers presenting them with an option: waive their rights to their cash and property or face felony charges for crimes such as money laundering—and the prospect of having to hire a lawyer and return to Shelby County multiple times to attend court sessions to contest the charges.

The process apparently is so routine in Tenaha that Guillory discovered pre-signed and pre-notarized police affidavits with blank spaces left for an officer to describe the property being seized.

Jennifer Boatright, her husband and two young children—a mixed-race family—were traveling from Houston to visit relatives in east Texas in April 2007 when Tenaha police pulled them over, alleging that they were driving in a left-turn lane.

After searching the car, the officers discovered what Boatright said was a gift for her sister: a small, unused glass pipe made for smoking marijuana. Although they found no drugs or other contraband, the police seized $6,037 that Boatright said the family was carrying to purchase a used car—and then threatened to turn their children, ages 10 and 1, over to Child Protective Services if the couple didn't agree to sign over their right to their cash.

"It was give them the money or they were taking our kids," Boatright said. "They suggested that we never bring it up again. We figured we better give them our cash and get the hell out of there."

Several months later, after Boatright and her husband contacted an attorney, Tenaha officials returned their money but offered no explanation or apology. The couple remain plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit.

Except for Tenaha's mayor, none of the defendants in the lawsuit, including Shelby County District Atty. Linda Russell and two Tenaha police officers, responded to requests from the Tribune for comment about their search-and-seizure practices. Lawyers for the defendants also declined to comment, as did several of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

But Whitmire says he doesn't need to await the suit's outcome to try to fix what he regards as a statewide problem. On Monday he introduced a bill in the state Legislature that would require police to go before a judge before attempting to seize property under the asset-forfeiture law—and ultimately Whitmire hopes to tighten the law further so that law-enforcement officials will be allowed to seize property only after a suspect is charged and convicted in a court.

"The law has gotten away from what was intended, which was to take the profits of a bad guy's crime spree and use it for additional crime-fighting," Whitmire said. "Now it's largely being used to pay police salaries—and it's being abused because you don't even have to be a bad guy to lose your property."

Stevo

[Chas_svo]

Don't worry, apparently the drug dealers and traffickers aren't so open with law enforcement due to lack of trust, so their money is never found...

[stevo]

That cop deserves a bullet.

I would consider it armed robbery, and if in Texas, I would use my right to use deadly force to protect myself and my property.

Stevo

[Venix]

I am very pro police, but I am very anti-this. My job often requires me to carry around large amounts of cash. I carry next to no proof as to why, but I do have to do it. What gives this guy the right to pull someone over and rob them with his badge?

[sc281]

The Gestapo would be proud wouldn't they? I think saying "this cop deserves a bullet" is a bit of an understatement. This country was founded by putting bullets in people just like that guy.

hear-hear!

[Broncojohnny]

The Gestapo would be proud wouldn't they? I think saying "this cop deserves a bullet" is a bit of an understatement. This country was founded by putting bullets in people just like that guy.

[Mach1]

So now the state gets to determine how much money you can carry around?

I guarantee you that if a Tennessee cop pulls over Jerry Jones and found 20k on him, it would still be in Jerry's hands when the traffic stop was done.

Because Jerry would pull out his .44 Mag and knock some holes in the filth pig??

[Gargamel]

So now the state gets to determine how much money you can carry around?

I guarantee you that if a Tennessee cop pulls over Jerry Jones and found 20k on him, it would still be in Jerry's hands when the traffic stop was done.