Question:
Can I take any action against these Ice Agents, or customs. I believe they are abusing power.?
Delicious
2009-01-26 19:28:08 UTC
I had a little store in the fleamarket, now i wont sugar coat anything nor will I try to make my self sound innocent, but I was selling some counterfiet nike, which i didnt know was a big deal, and other stuff but most the stuff i was selling was authentic. Now i am only 18 and ive had this little business for about a year or two, and never had a problem. Then i moved away to college and gave the business up to my little brother. The day they so called "raided" my stand at the fleamarket, they made me drive all the way back from college to home and go to thier office. So I listened, Come to find out after they took everything i had whether it was fake or authentic, they also took my mother vehical, that my mom used to drop my little brother off to go sell. Then also when i got to thier office i cooperated 100% and gave them soo much more respect then those guys will ever deserve and they lied to me.They told me if i cooperated 100% then they would help me out. I went into thier interrogation room, and they started cursing at me and making accusations, and if i didnt agree they kept threatning me that they would make things worst for me. They asked for my background as they knew i was middleastern, but born and raised here in the U.s, then asked for my religious preference, and then asked me if i was funding terrorism. I mean HELLO im 18 years old going to college, i had some shoes and clothing in a fleamarket and im funding terrorism, how rediculous is this getting. Then in the end of being harrassed in their interrogation room, they took my car from me also leaving my mother who has 3 children to take to school everyday with no car, and me who has to go to college with no car, And that fleamarket business did not pay for those cars, they had nothing to do with the cars. Then they took us back to our home and looked through my house to find nothing, with no warrant may i add. Then they told me that they were going to indict me as a felon, and make sure i lost all my scholarships for college. So once they told us that we got a lawyer, but i beleive my lawyer is on thier side because he has done nothing but collect our money, and hasnt gotten our cars back, he said he stopped them from indicting me, but from the research ive done, even if they did try to indict me they really didnt have a case agaisnt me. But we need our cars back its been 5 months that they have had our cars, and im still making the payments on my car because i dont want to mess my credit up, and my moms car is paid off. Also i forgot to add that they wanted to make a deal inorder not to indict me they want to keep our cars, But thats not right. Is thier any High ranking customs officer i should contact, congressman, What should we do. This is all happeneing in Jacksonville Fl. So the ice office here is very small, i dont know what to do If anyone could please give some good advice.
Four answers:
2009-01-26 19:44:18 UTC
you made quite a few mistakes already, first off you should never have gone in there without a lawyer.



I would see a lawer now, I am not a legal person by any means but I am a vendor.



they should not have taken any of the vehicles, unless they found the counterfeit items in them?



I would hire a lawyer and sue.



but let me tell you, I don't know that nike will do this, but I know the purfumes companies do, they sue you 40k per item.



I would consult a lawer with the intent to Sue, tell him you not only want him to defend you, but to sue. and that he will get paid only if you win the suit,



what have you got to lose, give it a shot.
Charles
2009-01-27 14:19:55 UTC
Yea im sorry to hear that bro they are just jerking with you, and youre not the first person i heard they have been abusing thier power on. I believe you should take legal action and file a claim of racial discrimination, and what ever else you can round up. i would try to get in contact with a higher ranking custom agents. Some people just make me sick. I am not a legal authority, but i know for sure there are some type of claims you can file agianst that. Maybe asking a legal professional for advice.
2016-10-25 03:58:54 UTC
because ICE brokers are former protection rigidity adult adult males and acceptable regulation enforcement officials. there's no action for them in amnesty. They receives a fee to pass out and bash heads- they receives a fee to snatch illegals and deliver them again the position they got here from. Why might want to they help some thing that takes their activity away?
I-Like-Chicha&Ceviche
2009-01-26 19:32:39 UTC
If you willingly sell counterfeit merchandise along with authentic merchandise you and your customers are subject to prosecution.


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