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Drug dealers’ cash helps law enforcement
HOUMA — When a drug dealer gets locked up, thousands of dollars in cash and narcotics can be left behind.
Although the illegal merchandise gets destroyed, the confiscated money ends up helping law enforcement.
“We have to prove that they are used as illegal assets,” Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.
About 60 percent of money deemed illegal from raids in the state goes to the Sheriff’s Office or local Police Department that participated in the investigation. The district attorney’s office and Criminal Court fund each get 20 percent.
If it’s a federal bust, up to 90 percent goes to the Sheriff’s Office or local Police Department. The rest is split among federal agencies.
The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office seized about $410,600 in drug money in 2012 and got about $273,400 that year from guilty pleas and verdicts, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brennan Matherne said. The Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office and the Criminal Court Fund each received $26,100.
Larpenter’s office seized about $90,056 in drug money in 2012 but pocketed about $301,394 that year from guilty pleas and verdicts that included money confiscated in previous years, Sheriff’s Maj. Sele Roddy said.
This year the agency helped seize more than $1.3 million, much of it from June raids on suspected synthetic marijuana operations at convenience stores.
http://theadvocate.com/home/6693462-125/drug-dealers-cash-helps-law
HOUMA — When a drug dealer gets locked up, thousands of dollars in cash and narcotics can be left behind.
Although the illegal merchandise gets destroyed, the confiscated money ends up helping law enforcement.
“We have to prove that they are used as illegal assets,” Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.
About 60 percent of money deemed illegal from raids in the state goes to the Sheriff’s Office or local Police Department that participated in the investigation. The district attorney’s office and Criminal Court fund each get 20 percent.
If it’s a federal bust, up to 90 percent goes to the Sheriff’s Office or local Police Department. The rest is split among federal agencies.
The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office seized about $410,600 in drug money in 2012 and got about $273,400 that year from guilty pleas and verdicts, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brennan Matherne said. The Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office and the Criminal Court Fund each received $26,100.
Larpenter’s office seized about $90,056 in drug money in 2012 but pocketed about $301,394 that year from guilty pleas and verdicts that included money confiscated in previous years, Sheriff’s Maj. Sele Roddy said.
This year the agency helped seize more than $1.3 million, much of it from June raids on suspected synthetic marijuana operations at convenience stores.
http://theadvocate.com/home/6693462-125/drug-dealers-cash-helps-law
