State Must Return $225,000 Seized From Man During Traffic Stop: Court

Officers in Mississippi took the money from a California man after pulling him over.

U.S. currency, in a file image. Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images

Mississippi law enforcement officers wrongly seized hundreds of thousands of dollars from a man after pulling him over, the state’s appeals court ruled on Oct. 8.

Brandon Police Department officers wrongly took what Rae Young Chung, a South Korean native and California resident, described as his life savings, the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi ruled.