Category: News
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Customs Seizes $80,000 in Currency from Smuggler
Another day, another customs money seizure. This again demonstrates that, as in countless other incidents, the concealment of the cash is…
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Customs Merchandise & Property Seizures in the Caribbean
U.S. Customs & Border Protection in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands recently reported their annual fiscal year statistics,…
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Dulles CBP Seizes Over $13K in Unreported Currency
Customs does not stop seizing money from travellers at airports just because it’s the holiday season. On December 26, customs…
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Increased travel = increased customs currency seizure
Increased travel for the holidays means increased opportunities for customs to seize your money for failing to report the transport…
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Customs Announces Expanded Filing of Joint Customs Declarations
Customs announced they recently took steps broadening the definition of who counts as a member of a family residing in…
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CBP Seizes $82,000 in Currency
In a news release issued today from Customs we learn about a recent customs money seizure in Brownsville, Texas, that involves…
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Customs Seizes $35,018 in Currency
CBP officers at the Calexico downtown port of entry intercepted $35,018 in unreported U.S. currency concealed inside the center console…
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CBP Seizes $30,007 in Unreported Currency
The pace of customs currency seizure news releases has declined since the government shutdown, but today Customs released some details…
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International Cash Seizures by Customs reported by New York Times
As a U.S. customs lawyer, I only handle currency seizures that occur within the United States — I am not…
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Baltimore CBP Seizes $44K in Unreported Currency
CBP in Baltimore has made another news release about currency seizures for currency reporting requirement violations conducted at their port.…
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CBP Seizes $34,685 in Unreported Currency in Puerto Rico
In another interesting news release, CBP reports on a monetary instrument/currency seizure that occured in Puerto Rico: San Juan, Puerto…
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CBP Currency Seizures in Philadelphia for Violations of the Currency Reporting Regulations
CBP in Philadelphia has really stepped up their news releases concerning currency seizures. Recently, there is a new release which I quote…
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Philly CBP Provides On-Site Mitigatation for Reporting Violation after Currency Seizure
Coming out of the Philadelphia airport, CBP has another news release dealing this time with a currency seizure based on…
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Customs Seizes Money Smuggled in Gas Tank
Although this case is definitely outside the realm of your average failure to report currency in excess of $10,000, I…
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$25K Currency Seizure at Philadelphia International Airport
This is the second such story from Philadephia about Russian’s and the Philadelphia airport, the first one I commented on…
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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 $460,060 in unreported currency
The Laredo Sun reported on a currency seizure by CBP in Laredo, Texas involving a 31-year-old U.S. citizen from Chicago…
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Customs’ seizes T-Rex skull in Jackson, Wyoming as part of ongoing investigation
CBP officers in Jackson, Wyoming executed a federal warrant to seize the skull of a Tarbosaurus from a private residence…
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Detroit Customs donates seized fossils to University of Michigan
The Detroit Free Press reported on a case involving U.S. Customs seizing hundreds of prehistoric fossils at the Ambassador Bridge…