FAYETTE COUNTY — A forfeiture case was filed today in Fayette County Court, seeking to confiscate a pickup truck and nearly $6,000 from a 50-year-old Vandalia man charged with multiple felony drug and firearms offenses.

Hardie Todd Shafer was arrested in July by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies and charged with Class 2 felony delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, Class 3 felony possession of meth, three counts Class 3 felony possession of a firearm by a felon, two counts Class 4 felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

In the forfeiture case filed today, the state seeks to confiscate a 2004 Ford F-150 and $5,860 in cash seized at the time of Shafer’s arrest.

A recent study shows that Illinois law enforcement confiscated more than $319 million in cash and property from individuals over the past 10 years, using a system that doesn’t require convictions to validate the forfeitures.