By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 11/28 — Tyson Timbs plunked down about $40,000 on a new white Land Rover in 2013. He spent the remaining $30,000 or so of the life-insurance money he received after his father’s death on heroin.
Category: Asset Forfeiture
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) 12/15 — U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion-dollar opioid drug-ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that’s exploded in value to about $8.5 million since the alleged ringleader’s arrest a year ago.
By KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press 12/02 – A Wyoming judge ordered the state Friday to return nearly $92,000 seized from a musician during a traffic stop that resulted in no criminal charges or even an arrest,
ROME (AP) 08/02— Italian authorities ordered a German group’s migrant rescue boat seized Wednesday on suspicion it was used to aid human traffickers in Libya who are engaged in “clandestine immigration.”
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 07/19 — The Trump administration will soon restore the ability of police to seize suspects’ money and property with federal help,