Legal Opinion
State v. Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars in United States Currency
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided April 16, 2009No. 08-07-00235-CVPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.
The State of Texas appeals from a judgment denying its petition for forfeiture of $5,500 alleged to be contraband. We reverse and remand.
FACTUAL SUMMARY
Officer Ken Fay is a narcotics investigator with the living Police Department. On March 4, 2005, a DEA agent, Henry Biddle, advised another narcotics investigator, Henry Schutt, that a confidential informant had told him that a 43-year-old white male known as “Tony” was dealing methamphetamine out of two storage stalls located at Carl Road and S.H. 183 in Irving. The informant said that Tony drove a blue…
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