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Kids were pawns in alleged Texas highway shakedown schemeBy DANNY ROBBINS
 DALLAS - Authorities in a Texas town under investigation for allegedly shaking down motorists for their cash sometimes used the travelers' children as bargaining chips in their attempt to seize money, records show.
Documents reviewed by The Associated Press describe the extent to which children became pawns as authorities in Tenaha, a town near the Louisiana border, accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars through highway traffic stops that have since sparked a federal investigation.
"They basically said, 'If you all want to leave without going to jail tonight and take your kids with you, then you'll sign over your money right now,'" Jennifer Boatright, a Houston mother of two, said in an interview describing her encounter with local officials.
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