CADDO COUNTY, OK — A district attorney from Oklahoma is under fire seizing over $1.3 million in alleged drug money using a private security firm to conduct roadside drug searches along a 21 mile stretch of Interstate 40.
Prosecutors have dismissed all criminal cases stemming from the stops, which were conducted by private security firm Desert Snow beginning in January of this year after being hired by Caddo County District Attorney Jason Hicks to provide training for the county’s drug task force.
At a hearing on July 2, Caddo County special judge David A. Stephens said that he was “shocked” to learn that the employees of Desert Snow, who were actively involved in pulling motorists over and searchin. . . . . READ MORE