{"id":21896,"date":"2016-04-26T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21896"},"modified":"2016-04-26T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:42:47","slug":"wapo-why-oklahoma-cops-are-returning-53000-to-a-christian-band-an-orphanage-and-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21896","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Why Oklahoma cops are returning $53,000 to a Christian band, an orphanage and a church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/26\/why-oklahoma-cops-are-returning-53000-to-a-christian-band-an-orphanage-and-a-church\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_wb-forfeiture-935am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Why Oklahoma cops are returning $53,000 to a Christian band, an orphanage and a church<\/a> by Christopher Ingraham:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of Karen Christians from Burma and Thailand have partnered with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to challenge the civil forfeiture of more than $53,000 by Muskogee County. The seized assets included cash donations made to a Thai orphanage and funds being raised for a nonprofit Christian school in Burma by the Klo &#038; Kweh Music Team, a Burmese Christian rock band on a five-month tour of Karen churches across the U.S. (Institute for Justice)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n. . .<\/p>\n<p>Eh Wah was pulled over for a broken tail light in February by Muskogee County sheriff&#8217;s deputies, who said a drug-sniffing dog alerted on the car. When the deputies searched the car, they found all $53,000 that the band had raised. They didn&#8217;t like Eh Wah&#8217;s explanation for why he had it, citing inconsistencies in his responses to police questions. So they seized the cash and eventually charged him with a drug felony, even though they found no drugs or paraphernalia in the car or in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Loge, the district attorney, said the officers had enough probable cause to take the cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Why Oklahoma cops are returning $53,000 to a Christian band, an orphanage and a church by Christopher Ingraham: A group of Karen Christians from Burma and Thailand have partnered with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to challenge the civil &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21899,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions\/21899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}