Briles v. 2013 GMC Terrain, MN License No.: 168KSE, VIN: 2GKFLZE3XD6336507

OPINION

Savage Police arrested Russell Briles’s drunk son after he crashed and totaled Briles’s GMC Terrain sport utility vehicle. The police department seized the vehicle and notified Briles of its intent to forfeit it under the impaired-driver forfeiture statute, Minnesota Statutes section 169A.63. Briles had no intent to recover the totaled, seized wreck, planning instead to recover on his automobile insurance policy. But unbeknownst to Briles, the police department’s attorney told his insurer to hold any insurance proceeds and implied that the department had the right to them. Briles…