HOUSTON WOMAN ARRESTED IN BRENHAM ON MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGE
(Washington Co. Jail)
Brenham Police arrested a Houston woman following a Friday evening traffic stop.
Just after 8:30, Brenham Police conducted a traffic stop in the 1800 block of US Highway 290 East.
During their investigation, police found an occupant in the vehicle in possession of a large sum of currency.
46-year-old Maria Maldonaldo of Houston, was taken into custody for Money Laundering Between $2,500-and-$3,000.
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So True … Its sad ..
The number of times I have had the amount of cash on hand just to pay bills and pay rent now scares me. So it isn’t these “criminals” following me out of the bank trying to rob me…..in clear actuality it is our own civil servants pulling people over and seizing money because “no one has a reason to have that amount of cash on them”. This is 2021. NOT 1950. I guess we should just be blind to the outright criminal activity that is regularly displayed by the “leadership” in this town and bow down to them with our cash out begging not to be locked up because, gawd forbid, we are on the streets with more than $20 in our wallet. I hope they enjoyed their little bonus they just stole. Someone get some lawyers and media out here to look at this mess.
Unfortunately civil asset forfeiture favors law enforcement in taking the burden of proof off of them and putting it on you. It may or may not be connected to a crime, but good luck getting it back. I guess they expect everyone to just use debit/credit cards and/or checks.
Wow, I better go put my money back in the back instead of having it on me to try and get my daughter a car for graduating from BRENHAM HIGH SCHOOL they might stop me and take it and say I’m money laundering even though I’ve worked at valmont here in BRENHAM for 10 years.
I have never heard of such a small money laundering amount. That’s her stimulus money ??
Since we apparently make our own rules here in Brenham, could someone please make public what amount of cash one is allowed to have in their possession while within the city limits? Has the City screwed up its finances so bad that now we all get to play the Civil Forfeiture game so the City can pay its bills? Either this is a misprint, there’s a lot more to the story, or some lawyer is about to really stick it to BPD.
I carry that everyday. As long as its not over 10,000 in cash there was no reason for them to take her money. Didnt say anything about drugs being involved.
Many people carry similar amounts of cash with them at times. Hope there was another contributing factor other than race. Round top antique show folks easily have those sums of cash with them. Sounds like an excuse to seize money from citizens. If these type of incidents continue don’t bother trying to get people to visit the county.
What does her race have to do with it? Did you not get the assumption that there is more to the story? It didn’t take much for me to get that.
I agree Just today I went to the bank and withdrew 3,000 cash to go to purchase a new refrigerator , So would I have been arrested and Jailed ?
I don’t understand. There has to be more to this story. We carry cash on us around or just over this amount. How is it laundering?
Maybe don’t wonder how this is laundering, but know what it means to launder and that will answer your question.