United States v. One 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7 VIN: 9H93F720727

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

In this oddly captioned case, the owner of a 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7 implicated in drug transactions appeals from the District Court’s order of forfeiture. We find that probable cause existed to seize the car and that it had a sufficient nexus with the drug deal, and so affirm the forfeiture order.

Wanted: One Mercury Cougar, Armed and Dangerous

On February 24,1980, police officers near Odessa, Texas received an alert that an aircraft, operating without lights, had land*229ed in an open field outside town. Suspicious that the plane might contain illegal drugs, the…