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$5,000 Settlement for Improper Property Release by Seattle Jail

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009

Filed under: Money/Property, Prisoner Property. Location: Washington.

Washington State’s King County paid $5,000 to settle the lawsuit of Mick Robertson, who claimed that when he was arrested in December 12, 2000, he possessed a banker’s box that contained automobile titles for Greenlight Auto. The assault charge Robertson was arrested on related to a dispute over the ownership …

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