Miami police were caught on camera unlawfully seizing guns, drugs and nearly $20,000 in stripper tips, during a traffic stop that they later boasted about to local media.

Ras Cates, 33, and his wife Lizmixell Batista, 20, were pulled over for cutting offa patrol car in Miami on May 25 when officers searched the couple's car without permission.

In the trunk they found six guns, including three assault rifles, $19,934 that Batista, a stripper, had earned in tips at Cheetah Gentleman's Club in Hallandale Beach, suspected marijuana oil and several bottles of codeine cough syrup.

The couple were charged with multiple felonies including armed drug dealing, but quickly moved to have the charges thrown out by saying the evidence was obtained illegally.

The entire traffic stop was caught by an officer's bodycam, which led prosecutors to dismiss the case.

A court has ordered the Miami-Dade Police Department to return the glittery cash and pay the couple's $3,000 legal bill.








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'Search of the trunk was illegal,' prosecutor Johnathan Nobile wrote in a memo explaining why the state didn't press charges.


In the video obtained, an officer can be seen commanding Cates to open the trunk where they found the bounty of potentially illegal items.

Cates told the officers that he legally owned the six guns and had a valid concealed-weapons permit, which authorities have confirmed.

The nearly $20,000 in bills was discovered in Batista's purse.

The video shows the 20-year-old telling the officers: 'I was supposed to go the bank to deposit the money.

A fellow stripper named Haley Heath testified that Batista earned 'significant cash tips' at the Cheetah club at a hearing.

Because there was no probable cause for seizing the money, Judge Rodney Smith ordered that it be returned to the couple.


The department has been ordered to return the money after authorities determined that there was no probable cause to search the car.

The case was also dismissed.

What?
Well, no be SARS catch dem

The law and her twisted arm ..

DAMN INSHORT I DEY DRIVE GO MEET SARS WITH 100K IN MY TRUNK N MY PHONE WITH WHITE WOMEN PICS

WHEN CAUGHT WILL TELL DEM "NO PROBABLE CAUSE FOR STOPPING ME"

Can already imagine this scenario in playing out in Naija.
Judge: NPF return the money to the couple and drop all charges.
NPF: You Honour, the money is with SARS
SARS; Which money?

Where there is a bit sanity and the law works.


See judgment

Buskete:
Can already imagine this scenario in playing out in Naija.
Judge: NPF return the money to the couple and drop all charges.
NPF: You Honour, the money is with SARS
SARS; Which money?

Lol.

fortune1894:
DAMN INSHORT I DEY DRIVE GO MEET SARS WITH 100K IN MY TRUNK N MY PHONE WITH WHITE WOMEN PICS

WHEN CAUGHT WILL TELL DEM "NO PROBABLE CAUSE FOR STOPPING ME"

Hmmm

Don't try this in Nigeria please.

If it's Nigeria Police, they will shoot them in cold blood and steal the money. Then tag them armed robbery.

Foreign Transmitted SARS

See mini armory. giver niggas permit to carry such make we see if SARS no go think twice before trying to rob.

Explorers:
Miami police were caught on camera unlawfully seizing guns, drugs and nearly $20,000 in stripper tips, during a traffic stop that they later boasted about to local media.

Ras Cates, 33, and his wife Lizmixell Batista, 20, were pulled over for cutting offa patrol car in Miami on May 25 when officers searched the couple's car without permission.

In the trunk they found six guns, including three assault rifles, [b]$19,934[/b]that Batista, a stripper, had earned in tips at Cheetah Gentleman's Club in Hallandale Beach, suspected marijuana oil and several bottles of codeine cough syrup.

The couple were charged with multiple felonies including armed drug dealing, but quickly moved to have the charges thrown out by saying the evidence was obtained illegally.

The entire traffic stop was caught by an officer's bodycam, which led prosecutors to dismiss the case.

A court has ordered the Miami-Dade Police Department to return the glittery cash and pay the couple's $3,000 legal bill.








http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5927159/Miami-cops-unlawfully-seized-20K-stripper-tips-traffic-stop-recorded-bodycam.html

[b]7,000000[/b]for stripping just one night?

This is a country where the system truly works!

Nice

They would allow them go but trust me the police would keep a look out for them till they slip up.

tofolo:
They would allow them go but trust me the police would keep a look out for them till they slip up.

True