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Standard practice for drugs seized is to catalog them and store them for use as evidence in possible proceedings. When all proceedings are completed or a decision is made to take no further action, the drugs are destroyed.

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They save it as long as is necessary to use as evidence and then they destroy it.

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Where does the drug money go after being ceased from a drug bust question unanswered?

Money seized from criminals usually goes to the local government or to the police department.


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