In this country, being arrested, accused or even convicted of a crime, any crime, should not be grounds to have property confiscated. If you want to prescribe severe jailtime and/or fines, that's fine. If the dude has to sell the car to pay the fine, OK. But this crap of taking someone's sometimes very valuable property, giving it to the police or auctioning it off, is not close to being constituional, IMHO. Before you flame away, I'm as big a law and order/support LE guy as you'll find. I'm also a big Constitution, liberty guy as well, and taking property without due process is wrong, regardless how big a "scumbag" the owner is. Remember, the definition of "scumbag" is up to the people making the rules.