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#^One of the Most Predatory Civil Forfeiture Schemes EVER
Indiana’s state motto is “The Crossroads of America,” and for years police have exploited one of the nation’s biggest shipping centers to profit from that status. Indianapolis is home to the second-largest FedEx Express hub, where 99,000 packages from all over the country can be processed in a single hour. There, law enforcement officials pluck packages from conveyor belts, run them past K-9s, and, if a dog alerts and the officers find cash, the county prosecutor’s office begins civil-forfeiture proceedings in Indiana state court to keep the money.
The prosecutor’s office does not tell the owners what crime was allegedly committed to justify forfeiture or what facts support its allegations that the cash is linked to a crime. To make matters worse, the parcels and their owners usually have no connection to Indiana other than the happenstance that FedEx routed the parcel through its Indianapolis hub.
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