Civil Asset Forfeiture:
Legitimate law enforcement tool or vicious threat to the future of music?
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| Jimmy Tebeau |
On the first of November, according to St. Louis Today, concertgoers camping at Spookstock, an annual music festival at Camp Zoe in Missouri, were awoken by the tramping boots of over 70 agents from the DEA, FBI, IRS, Homeland Security, the Highway Patrol, and local police agencies. The authorities descended en masse, taking financial records, computers and gate receipts, but little else. A press release from Camp Zoe noted that one man was arrested for outstanding warrants not related to the raid. Later that day, the Camp Zoe bank account, amounting to over $200,000, was also seized.
