YES, NEXT QUESTION – Has asset forfeiture gone too far? Truck seizure case sparks outrage, a call for change | Fox News

Critics argue that civil asset forfeiture program’s abuses outweigh its benefits.

What had Gerardo Serano done to lose his truck?

“You need a warrant for that,” he says he told them. They searched his truck and found five bullets in a magazine clip that Serano, a Kentucky concealed carry permit holder, forgot to remove before leaving his home.

“We got you,” he says border agents told him. He was detained, but never arrested, nor charged, nor tried, nor convicted. However, agents did seize his prized new truck. Two years since its seizure, they have yet to give it back.

Serano is still making monthly payments of $673 on the truck as well as paying for its insurance and Kentucky license fees.

His attorneys at the Institute for Justice say Customs and Border Patrol has told them the truck was subject to the government’s Civil Asset Forfeiture program because it was used to “transport munitions of war.” (emphasis added)

As I said at the start, YES, NEXT QUESTION. May this case reach the US Supreme court and we can bring an end to this government thuggery.