Prosecutor's $502,000 forfeiture-funds appropriation is tabled again

What happened

Additional Appropriation 2026-42 — spending over $500,000 in prosecutor's-office drug-case forfeiture money on Terre Haute Police Department vehicles, contractual services, and equipment — was tabled for a second time after a representative of the prosecutor's office asked the council to hold it again tonight. The same request, split as $250,000 for vehicles, $52,000 for contractual services, and $200,000 for equipment, was first presented to the council on August 4 with no vote taken.

The outcome

Tabled again at the prosecutor's office's request; no vote was taken.

Sources

• Appropriation tabled again, 2:56:20
• Spending breakdown restated, 2:56:28
• $502,000 forfeiture appropriation first explained, Aug. 4

Also known as: seized assets fund · drug task force forfeiture · THPD vehicles and equipment · Additional Appropriation 2026-42 · forfeiture appropriation