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Article: Missouri Supreme Court clears the way for class action against Kansas City Police Department
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- Missouri Lawyers Media
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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The Missouri Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for a class
action lawsuit against the Kansas City Police Department brought by
two men arrested separately for drug trafficking.
The men, George Ricketts and Raymond Pearsall, allege the police
department in 1996 and 1999 improperly handed over to federal
authorities cash and personal property that they seized during the
investigations.
The property ranges from cash and jewelry to a BMW and other cars
- and they want it back.
So do about 600 other claimants who also accuse the police
department of violating the Missouri Criminal Activity Forfeiture
Act when they forfeited the property to federal government.
The case, which started in 2001 ...