TOMBALL MAN ARRESTED FOR LOCAL MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGE
A Tomball man has been arrested in Brenham on a charge of Money Laundering.
Thursday, around noon, Corporal Hunter Andras, stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Highway 290 West and North Berlin Rd.
The driver, 33-year old Felipe Mondragon Miranda, of Tomball did not have a driver’s license and was in possession of a large sum of cash and drug paraphernalia.
Miranda was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail for Money Laundering and No Driver’s License.
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It’s not the fault of the police, they just enforce bad laws. Money laundering. Usually someone that has a lot of cash on them, the police will take the money and say the money “was” going to be used to buy drugs or the person sold drugs to get the cash. You have to prove the money is yours and how you came about getting it. If you prove the money is yours it might be up to a year before you get your money back minus your lawyers fees.
I understand the issue w no dl, but being charged for money laundering by simply having it in your vehicle? At what point did the laundering occur? I knew a guy from a wealthy family who carried upwards of $20-25,000 quite often because as he said “getting a great deal on a must have item never involves running to the bank first”. How about casino goers, employees of gentlemen’s clubs, bar owners, bar managers, or even ransom payers? Lol
Answer- All very true but again when you involve DRUGS of any sort then the charge is inforced because to the informants they have no clue if it’s drug money weather it $500.00 cash or $15,000 cash! The money laundering charges are probably stated because it’s a bigger sum of cash! So then the charges or the outcome will be proven in court!!!
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No DL is one thing. My concern is, how much cash is a person allowed to carry before it becomes an amount you can be arrested for? Was he on his way to buy a car from another individual? Never forget that all these “grey area” laws can used against you as well.
Answer- No amount of cash is illegal to carry on your person or in your vehicle but in this case the young man had no drivers license and drug supplies which without those two charges nothing could have been done by any law informant!
Just think it’s more tax dollars for our county and more free court cost for the criminals!
*Its a Win / Win situation!!
You my friend are wrong. There have been many instances where money has been confiscated from business owners and these are people who had no drug paraphernalia and multiple forms of ID but in this beautiful country if you are traveling with cash you are at risk of having it confiscated because then you have to pay large sums of many to defend your reason for having it and if you fail at that and I’m talking down to the penny you will not get it back an the police department that confiscated it from you gets to keep a portion of it for what ever they choose to do. Literally highway robbery.
Texas- Please type in ” How much cash can I carry in Texas ” Awswer- NO LIMIT OF CASH MONEY IS ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s in black and white so that’s the answer but there’s always other reasons why the funds may have been taking but not just for having it on you! It is a huge risk but NOT a crime!
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