Category: Blog Articles
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Philly CBP Provides On-Site Mitigatation for Reporting Violation after Currency Seizure
In July 2013, a traveler arriving at Philadelphia International Airport from Italy told CBP officers during secondary inspection that he…
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Customs Seizes Money Smuggled in Gas Tank
On July 15, 2013, CBP officers working southbound inspections at the Calexico downtown port of entry, alongside members of the…
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$25K Currency Seizure at Philadelphia International Airport
Over one weekend in July 2013, CBP officers at Philadelphia International Airport caught two travelers understating how much money they…
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Currency Seizures by U.S. Customs Increase on the Holidays
Currency seizures rise around holidays, and the reason is unglamorous: more people fly, so more people are inspected. Over the…
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CBP Seizes $205,500 in Unreported Money
As reported by CBP in a recent news release: Lukeville, Ariz. – Two Mexican nationals were arrested Monday for attempting…
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$61k CBP Currency Seizure at Washington Dulles
CBP officers and HSI agents at Washington Dulles International Airport seized more than $60,000 from a Gambian national after a…
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CBP-Detroit Currency Seizures Exceed $5 million for 2013
In June 2013, CBP reported that currency seizure enforcement at its Detroit Field Office was running 24 percent ahead of…
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$19,000 money seizures by Customs in Philadelphia
It is refreshing to see a currency seizure story from Philadelphia for a change — most of the enforcement news…
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Currency smuggler tries laundering money
Pardon the title — but a CBP news release out of the Presidio, Texas port of entry tells the tale…
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Baltimore Customs Seizes $16,000 in Unreported Money
A currency seizure news release out of Boston — well, Baltimore Washington International Airport — presents a case that is…
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San Juan CBP Seizes $43,000 in Unreported Money
CBP reports on two currency seizures at Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico — both from passengers…
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Baltimore CBP Seizes Over $11K in Unreported Money/Currency
In June 2013, a traveler arrived at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on a flight from London, bound for…
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Customs seizure of smuggled money in Arizona
A CBP news release out of Arizona details a currency seizure that stands out from the typical airport case —…
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Regulated Wood Packaging Material Customs Violations
Which Penalties Apply to WPM Violations? CBP enforces the WPM regulations along two separate tracks, and they are frequently confused.…
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What Does CBP Do With Seized Money and Property?
Most people who ask what CBP does with seized money are not asking out of curiosity. They are asking because…
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Customs seizes $360,000 in Unreported Money
A CBP news release out of the Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry in Texas details a significant currency seizure — $360,025…
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Commentary on CBP money seizures in Philly
CBP’s public messaging on currency seizures rests on a premise worth examining: that the people who lose their money are…
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Customs seizes unreported money at border crossing
Two Mexican national women were attempting to cross southbound into Mexico through a Nogales port of entry when CBP officers…
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Customs Money Seizure of $175,000 in Unreported Currency at Port
In April 2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced two outbound currency seizures made at the same southern border port…
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Customs Money Seizure of $376,510
In April 2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced two outbound currency seizures made at the same southern border port…
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CBP Seizes Money at Texas Port of Entry
We cover these Texas border seizure cases not because most of our clients are drug couriers hiding cash in secret…
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CBP Seizes More Than $150,000 in Undeclared Money
On March 29, U.S. Customs officers at a Yuma, Arizona port of entry intercepted $150,000 in unreported currency being transported…
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Bulk Cash Smuggling; Customs Currency Seizure
Arizona news is reporting that a Mexican national was caught attempting to smuggle $90,000 in U.S. currency southbound across the…
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Country of Origin Marking Requirements
In a global economy where a person can find products from every corner of the globe consumers are sometimes inclined…
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U.S. Customs Money Seizure of $460,000 in Smuggled Currency
CBP reports another large southbound currency seizure at Nogales, Arizona — $464,000 hidden in a nightstand inside a vehicle attempting…