A Marine veteran is fighting back and warning about a lack of accountability after the Nevada Highway Patrol seized $87,000 ...
In a case brought by Stephen Lara, a judge ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot use an “equitable sharing” civil ...
The Nevada Highway Patrol exceeded its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 in cash from Stephen Lara in 2023 and ...
A judge ruled Nevada Highway Patrol overstepped its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 from a Marine Corps veteran ...
Washoe County Second Judicial District Court Judge Connie Steinheimer on Friday ruled that the Nevada Department of Public ...
A Nevada judge ruled that state law enforcement can’t use a federal program to circumvent state law that protects property ...
The case stemmed from the 2021 seizure of retired Marine Stephen Lara’s life savings during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 just east of Sparks. Troopers with the Nevada Highway Patrol said Lara ...
"The fight is not over," plaintiff Stephen Lara told Fox News Digital. "You have a lot of other people out there that are continuing to go through this unfortunate civil asset forfeiture process.
The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there ...