A North Carolina man will get back more than $39,000 in cash after police seized it from him at the Phoenix airport, despite never charging him with a crime.
Reason previously reported on the civil forfeiture case of Jerry Johnson. Johnson owns a trucking company and says he flew to Phoenix in 2020 to possibly purchase a semitruck at auction. Police detectives approached him at baggage claim, accused him of being a drug trafficker, and seized $39,500 from him.
