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NYPD tricking innocent people into committing nonexistent crimes, then charging them with felonies!
Overlawyered | December 9, 2007
Find a wallet, go to jail? New York undercover cops have been leaving wallets and purses around in public spots in the city, then arresting anyone who picks them up and doesn't present them to a nearby uniformed officer. Some arrestees have otherwise clean records and say they intended to use ID inside the bags to notify the rightful owners. Putting money inside the bags didn't lead to serious enough charges, in the coppers' view, so they began salting them with live American Express cards so that the finders could be charged with grand larceny, with four years behind bars. ( N.Y. Daily News, more, N.Y. Times, Fox News, ABC News, Gothamist).
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