A Vietnamese immigrant and his business partner are fighting to get back more than $100,000 seized by Oklahoma police who allege that it was drug money. By Rich Schapiro A pair of New Mexico businessmen were driving along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma late one night in April when a sheriff's deputy flipped on his lights and sirens and pulled over their BMW sedan. The two men, Nang Thai and Weichuan Liu, were on their way to a hotel in Oklahoma City. They planned to catch some sleep before heading out in the morning to close on a 10-acre plot of farmland they'd agreed to buy for $100,000. But now, at about 2 a.m. on April 19, a Canadian County sheriff's deputy was peering into their car. "We didn't understand why he pulled us over," said Thai, 51, a Vietnamese immigrant and father of two from Albuquerque. "I was driving under the speed limit." They had no way of knowing at the time but Thai and Liu were about to begin an hours-long ordeal that would leav...
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