Over the past three years, Melisa Ingram, a 50-year-old Detroit resident, has had her 2017 Ford Fusion seized twice by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office. The officers claimed that Ingram’s ex-boyfriend, who had her car at the time of the seizures, was involved in illegal activity. Under Michigan’s civil asset forfeiture law, the police could … Continue reading Federal Loophole Thwarts State Curbs on Police Seizures of Property