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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Commit any felonies lately

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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