Category: Seizures in the News
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CBP Officers at Downtown Port Seize Almost $830,000 in U.S. Currency bound for Mexico
The cost of gas these days. Another creative smuggler, but not creative enough. CBP reports on a recent bulk cash smuggling…
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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 in Southern Arizona Seizes $100K In Cash
The currency reporting requirements were designed, in part, to give the government additional abilities to catch people involved in money…
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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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Man’s Money Seized by Customs Trying to Smuggle Out of U.S.
According to a recent news release, Customs intercepted an alleged outbound currency smuggling attempt in Arizona: A local man was…
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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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Currency Seizures by U.S. Customs Increase on the Holidays
The holidays always seem to be ripe for currency seizures by U.S. Customs & Border Protection because of the increased…
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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
CBP in Detroit — my home port — reported that currency seizure enforcement is up 24% in value over the…
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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
A CBP news release from Baltimore details a currency seizure at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport — $11,400 taken…
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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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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
There is an interesting news release from CBP about some money seizures in Philadelphia that goes beyond the usual “facts-only” narrative style and…
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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
As reported recently by U.S. Customs & Border Protection: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting outbound inspections selected a…
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Customs Money Seizure of $376,510
Customs & Border Protection discusses a recent money seizure in a news release available by clicking HERE. This time it was a…
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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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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…