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TWIN FALLS • In the first days of 2010, the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office received a tip from an anonymous source that a Hispanic man and his wife were selling drugs out of their home at 656 Callaway Court.
A deputy went to the home Jan. 8 and dug through the trash, finding evidence that a woman named Jasil Gomez lived there, according to court documents. A week later, Gomez answered deputies’ knock on the door.
The discovery prompted the deputies to secure the home and apply for a search warrant. Once a judge signed the warrant, “a thorough search of the residence was conducted,” Joslin wrote in a sworn affidavit.
But rather than finding evidence of a large-scale trafficking operation like the anonymous tipster had suggested, deputies found only circumstantial evidence, like a pendant with the picture of Jesus Malverde, a possibly mythical figure who is worshiped by some drug traffickers as the Narco Saint of Sinaloa, Mexico.
But in the top dresser drawer, next to one of the small bags of marijuana, deputies found something else: $11,000 in cash. In other parts of the home, they found another $1,010....
The rest is at the link, talks a lot about citizen forfeiture and problems with "policing for profit"
TWIN FALLS • In the first days of 2010, the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office received a tip from an anonymous source that a Hispanic man and his wife were selling drugs out of their home at 656 Callaway Court.
A deputy went to the home Jan. 8 and dug through the trash, finding evidence that a woman named Jasil Gomez lived there, according to court documents. A week later, Gomez answered deputies’ knock on the door.
The discovery prompted the deputies to secure the home and apply for a search warrant. Once a judge signed the warrant, “a thorough search of the residence was conducted,” Joslin wrote in a sworn affidavit.
But rather than finding evidence of a large-scale trafficking operation like the anonymous tipster had suggested, deputies found only circumstantial evidence, like a pendant with the picture of Jesus Malverde, a possibly mythical figure who is worshiped by some drug traffickers as the Narco Saint of Sinaloa, Mexico.
But in the top dresser drawer, next to one of the small bags of marijuana, deputies found something else: $11,000 in cash. In other parts of the home, they found another $1,010....
The rest is at the link, talks a lot about citizen forfeiture and problems with "policing for profit"
