Grillz are fancy ornamental overlays for teeth, the name coming from the grill on cars. They are often created from gold and precious stones.
CBS reports: Feds Want to Seize Suspects’ Grillz. The Feds were actually taking these people to a dentist to seize their fancy dental work with a forfeiture order before their attorneys intervened.
I’m sorry, but this is sick and it is being done in our name.
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This crap has been going on for a long time. Authorities accuse somebody of certain crimes (mainly drug dealing, as far as I know) and then grab all their assets, leaving the defendants no money to defend themselves. Plus the arresting authorities get to keep the money and spend it as they please on “law enforcement.”
I don’t for a fact know, but with such motives and means, I suspect a lot of railroading and corruption.
At least a decade ago, 60 Minutes had a feature on, IIR the story C, a Tennessee landscaper who said he was traveling by plane to Texas to shop around for plants and was “caught” with $10,000 in cash on him, so DEA declared him a drug dealer suspect and seized his business. After several years, nobody could find any evidence on him other than that he had “too much cash,” but they still wouldn’t return his property, and he was broke.
I wonder how one asks 60 Minutes for a followup.
This garbage happens on I-95 in Florida. If you have a lot of cash on you, you are assumed to be a drug dealer and you have to sue the Federal government to get your property back.
There are a lot of people in rural Florida who will not take anything except cash and they own antique cars and boats. I have been on a few trips with friends to pick up boats, and without cash the process would involve multiple trips or hanging around in a local motel until a check clears.
Hell, I saw a deal go south because my friend brought the new $100s and the guy with the boat didn’t believe they were real.