http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2014-07-21/panhandle-speed-trap-settles-suit-over-missing-cash
The city of Estelline is reviewing its police procedures after Hall
County authorities reached a $77,500 legal settlement with an Azle woman
who alleged officers illegally seized more than $29,000 from her pickup
and kept $1,400 of her cash.
The federal suit, filed last year by Laura Dutton, 64, alleged that
the cities of Estelline and Memphis, former Officer Jayson Fry and
Memphis Police Chief Chris Jolly violated her Fourth Amendment rights
against illegal search and seizure when she was arrested Nov. 28, 2012,
in Estelline on a felony money laundering charge.
The cities and the officers denied Dutton’s claims, but the case was settled in an agreed order approved
July 17 by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson.
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