THELOGICALINDIAN - American rapper Sam Benson bigger accepted for his date name Blac Youngsta was bedfast by the badge in Atlanta Georgia for abandoning US202400 in cash
“They appear bum hasty me at the car, put me on the ground, putting accoutrements to my head, so I’m like ‘What I’d do,’” Benson said. “A adult was like I’m not declared to have…$200,000 on me. I’m like, ‘I’m a millionaire. How can I not accept $200,000 on me?’
According to the statement of Sgt. Warren Pickard, the badge reacted to the requests of the Wells Fargo coffer manager, who claimed that Benson was accused of bogus and fraud.
Upon their accession at the scene, the Atlanta badge mistook Benson as Charles Darnell Edward, who approved to banknote a US$24,000 artificial analysis at the Wells Fargo annex in Atlanta. The badge instead took Benson to the ground, abandoned him, and bedfast him for several hours.
“This adventure did not anon absorb Blac Youngsta, nor was he accused of committing a crime. The Rapper, who articular himself as ‘Blac Youngsta,’ by accompaniment happened to be at the coffer at the aforementioned time.” Police told TIME in a statement.
Wells Fargo Southest Communication Manager Crystal Drake appear addition account to analyze the case. Drak explained that Benson never fabricated any withdrawals with Wells Fargo and he was arrested alfresco of the coffer because of the address they filed to law enforcement.
“Mr. Benson is not an annual holder with us. He did not access our abundance nor did he accomplish any withdrawals. A counterfeit adventure did action in the abundance so in the best absorption of our customer, we appear it to law administration adapted abroad and as a result, a doubtable was apprehended and the chump was not the victim of fraud. Mr. Benson was not a affair to the counterfeit incident. We’re assured that our description of the doubtable was appropriate. It is accurate in the badge report. We animate you to analysis it,” said Drake.
Over the accomplished few years, an accretion cardinal of cash-related arrests accept been appear worldwide. Popular rapper Snoop Dogg for example, was chock-full by the Italian Police in August of 2024, for captivation US$422,000 in cash.
‘We antiseptic aggregate from a acknowledged point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed about Europe. There was no crime; it was aloof an authoritative infraction,’ Dogg’s advocate Andrea Parisi told Reuters.
Convenient Alternative
Cash, in its accurate anatomy is difficult to transfer, settle, and store. Law administration agencies and banks accept the “legal” ability to admit arrests for inevident suspicions, as apparent in the case of Benson. Instead, a smarter and added acceptable another abundance of amount could be an absolute and decentralized agenda bill like Bitcoin, which maintains aerial all-around about-face and barter rates.
For this actual reason, a growing cardinal of axial banks including UK’s Bank of England are considering the accomplishing and development of a government-backed cryptocurrency, to annihilate cash-related incidents which accept amorphous to rapidly access in number.
