The Nevada trooper first told Stephen Lara the highway patrol was educating drivers “about violations they may not realize they’re committing,” and that he’d been pulled over for following ...

Stephen Lara was driving cross-country to see his daughters in California when a seemingly routine traffic stop ended with the Nevada Highway Patrol seizing his entire life savings of $87,000.

On February 19, 2021, retired Marine Stephen Lara was making the 1,400 mile drive from Lubbock, Texas to Portola, a small California town near Reno, Nevada, where his teenage daughters lived with ...

"The fight is not over," plaintiff Stephen Lara told Fox News Digital. "You have a lot of other people out there that are continuing to go through this unfortunate civil asset forfeiture process.

Stephen Lara had his life savings taken from him during a traffic stop but was never charged with a ... More crime. Nearly two years ago, in February 2021, Marine veteran Stephen Lara had his $ ...

Stephen Lara, 39, a resident of Lubbock, Texas, is a 16-year Marine veteran. He made the announcement at a press conference in Reno on Wednesday. Lara said he was driving from Texas to ...

The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there ...

"I just want to tell you Officer Brown, you're taking money out of my kids' mouths," Stephen Lara said as Nevada Highway Patrol officers confiscated his life savings. Police pulled over Lara near ...

Marine veteran Stephen Lara lost his life savings in an instant while driving through the Great Basin Desert. He had done nothing wrong, but Nevada State Police stopped his rental car, grabbed his ...

Marine veteran Stephen Lara lost his life savings in an instant while driving through the Great Basin Desert. He had done ...