Category: customs cash seizure
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Another $71K Seized at Brownsville Port: Repeat Currency Seizures Signal a Aggressive Enforcement
Just days after CBP officers seized $70,749 in unreported currency at the Brownsville Port of Entry on November 18, another…
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$70K Seized at Brownsville Port: What Travelers Need to Know About CBP Currency Reporting Rules
On November 18, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry seized over $70,749 in…
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CBP Seizes Over $1M at Hidalgo Port: What It Means for Travelers and Cash Seizure Cases
Learn how CBP seized $1M at Hidalgo Port and what travelers must know about declaring currency to avoid legal trouble.
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San Diego Currency Seizure CBP Lawyer
If you’re traveling through the San Diego ports of entry—San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, or Calexico—it’s crucial to understand the laws…
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How One Client Got $27K Back from CBP After Two Denials (And Why You Should Never Give Up)
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seizes your money, it can feel like the end of the road. But…
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CBP Seizes Over $130K Hidden in BMW at El Paso’s Ysleta Port of Entry
CBP officers at the Ysleta Port of Entry in El Paso recently seized $131,675 hidden inside a BMW X4. The…
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CBP Seizes $16,619 at Ambassador Bridge: What You Need to Know About Currency Reporting
On April 18, 2025, CBP officers at the Ambassador Bridge seized $16,619 in unreported U.S. currency from an outbound traveler…
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CBP Cash Seizures at Detroit Metro Airport: What It Means and What You Can Do
Detroit Metro Airport is one of the most active currency enforcement ports in the country. CBP’s Detroit Field Office —…
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What to Do If CBP Seizes Your Cash in Brownsville, Texas
In late August 2025, CBP officers at Brownsville conducted two separate outbound inspections that resulted in the seizure of a…
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Seized Currency While Overseas? Why You Must Act Before the Notice Arrives
If U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized your currency — whether cash or monetary instruments — while you…
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Abandoning Cash to CBP: A Costly Mistake
If CBP seizes your cash at the airport and officers present you with a form to abandon your property, signing…
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Dulles CBP K9s Sniff $171K in Unreported Cash
With all the tariff news its easy to forget about CBP’s prowess in seizing cash from traveler’s for (real, perceived,…
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Detroit Airport Cash Seizures: February 2025
Our law firm helps people every day in ports across the nation put their life back together after suffering through…
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Cash seizure at Detroit Metro Airport in January 2025
In our 15 years of helping people with cash seized by Customs, we have determined that, among all the ports…
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CBP San Ysidro discovers $44k in cash hidden in food bag
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere, processing tens of millions…
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Detroit CBP Confiscated $459,000 from 25 Travelers in October
In October 2024 — the first month of CBP’s new fiscal year — Detroit customs officers seized $42,000 from two…
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Detroit CBP Cash Seizures For November Currency Reporting Violations
Detroit CBP had a busy November 2024, reporting large currency seizures at Detroit Metro Airport, the Ambassador Bridge, and the…
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Detroit CBP Money Seizure Roundup for September
CBP in Detroit has continued to log large money seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failing to report (on form FinCen…
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Texas CBP seized $79K in hidden cash currency at Hidalgo Bridge
A failure to understanding customs regulations can result in the failure to declare cash when traveling into or out of…
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Dulles CBP Seizes $90K in Cash from 5 people: August 2024
The latest CBP money seizure news publicized comes to us from Dulles airport (again). In the story below, CBP seized…
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Detroit CBP Cash Seizure Summer Round-up
CBP in Detroit has continued to log large cash seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failure to report (on form FinCen…
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Philly CBP Seizes $36K in Cash
In Philadelphia, CBP officers seized $36,000 in cash from a man returning from a trip to Lebanon. The full story…
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CBP Hauls in Big Cash Seizures in Detroit
CBP in April and May continue to log huge cash seizures from arriving and departing traveler’s at the Port of…
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Detroit Cash Seizures at Ambassador Bridge & Detroit Metro Airport in March 2024
CBP officers in Detroit had their own version of March madness, when they seized around $370,000 total in cash from…
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Texas CBP Seizes $124K cash at Eagle Pass
Texas CBP officers seized $124,000 in Eagle Pass, Texas, on March 20, when a Mexican national traveled with $124,052, apparently…