Holder Limits Seized-asset Sharing Process That Split Billions With Local, State Police

January 19, 2015

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By Robert O’Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges.

Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.

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