Barton Hinkle
Elizabeth Daly went to jail over a case of bottled water. According to the Charlottesville Daily
Progress, shortly after 10 p.m. April 11, the University of Virginia student
bought ice cream, cookie dough and a carton of LaCroix sparkling water from the
Harris Teeter grocery store at the popular Barracks Road Shopping Center. In
the parking lot, a half-dozen men and a woman approached her car, flashing some
kind of badges. One jumped on the hood. Another drew a gun. Others started
trying to break the windows……The agents had thought the sparkling water was a
12-pack of beer….a 61-year-old man in Tennessee was killed when the police
executed a drug raid on the wrong house. A few weeks later, in another
wrong-house raid, police officers killed a dog belonging to an Army veteran….Federal
prosecutors …. seize almost $70,000 from the owners of a Maryland dairy. Randy
and Karen Sowers had made several bank deposits of just under $10,000 to avoid
the headache of filing federal reports required for sums over that amount. The
feds charged them with unlawful “structuring.”…... Authorities
kept half their money to teach them a lesson….. “I broke the law yesterday,”… George
Mason economics professor Alex Tabarrok….It’s hard for anyone to live today
without breaking the law…..Have you ever thrown out some junk mail that … was
addressed to someone else? That’s a violation of federal law punishable by up
to five years in prison”…..To Read More….
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