Phelps County deputies seized property worth millions along Interstate 44 in 2016-2017, but charges were never filed against those drivers

Between 2016 and 2017, police in Phelps County seized more than $2.6 million in cash and other property along a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 44. In Missouri, a state seizure of property requires a criminal conviction. But for the 24 seizures documented on the interstate in that two-year span, seizure reports indiciate zero state charges were filed.