Bumper Crop
Jose Cervantes spent three months in jail for attempting to smuggle almost 200 pounds of marijuana over the U.S.-Mexican border. The twist is that his dealer was the federal government. Cervantes had purchased the car at auction after it was seized by the INS. Neither he nor the feds had noticed the large stash of dope sealed in the car's bumpers.
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Wonder if there's some sort of civil forfeiture that can be brought against the government agency that sold him the marijuana car?
[insert Nelson Ha-Ha here]
Maybe the auction would come under the RAVE Act?