Highway Robbery: Wash. Post Editorial on Asset Seizure from Church

A January 2, 2012, editorial in the Washington Post describes the unwarranted and unlawful seizure of $28,500 cash by a Virginia state trooper from Victor Ramos Guzman, the secretary of Iglesia Pentecostal Nuevo Renacer, a Pentecostal church that has locations in Virginia, Maryland and New York. Mr. Guzman and his brother-in-law were stopped while they were transporting the church's money to a meeting with the owner of a parcel of land where the church hopes to build. The money is currently being held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. This is a prime example of innocent Hispanic motorists having assets unlawfully seized by police agencies. ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies should not be assisting state police forces in highway robbery. Smith & Zimmerman, PLLC, along with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, represent Mr. Guzman and the church in the fight to have their money returned.

Read the full Washington Post editorial here.