State ex rel. Watkins v. Sellers

MURDOCK, Judge.

The State ex rel. Nathan G. Watkins, Sr., District Attorney (“the State”), appeals from a judgment of the Sumter Circuit Court declining to condemn and forfeit a 2001 Cadillac Deville automobile (“the automobile”). We reverse and remand.

On March 24, 2001, police officers with the York Police Department arrested Richard Sellers, Jr. The officers had received a tip that Sellers was receiving marijuana through the mail from Texas and that he was having the drugs delivered to his grandmother’s address, where he would pick up the drugs for later distribution. By alerting the postal…