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WASHINGTON — One single branch of the U.S. government, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), has collected more than $4 billion through civil forfeiture since 2007. Disturbingly, most of that money — $3.2 billion — was seized in cash without criminal ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County district attorney’s office is refusing to give a family back their life savings of more than $100,000, even though it has dropped a civil forfeiture case against them. The DA dropped the case ...

Mary and Kenneth Paul Murray might lose their home to a drug taskforce even though they never were charged with a crime. The Michigan couple is fighting the state of Michigan and the Grand Traverse (County) Narcotics Team (TNT), both ...

Civil asset forfeiture hit a new low in Oklahoma when sheriff’s deputies seized $53,249 intended as donations to a Christian school and an orphanage from the manager of a Christian band. Even worse, deputies accused the band manager of being ...

It is possible to fight the Internal Revenue Service and its forfeiture rules — and win. The agency has agreed to return $153,907.99 it seized from North Carolina convenience store owner Khalid Quran in June 2014. The IRS took the ...

The majority of states in the US received a grade of “D” or worse in the second edition of the Institute for Justice’s Policing For Profit report, which examined how law enforcement can seize property or money and not return ...

It is no longer safe to carry large amounts of cash with you when you fly or even walk through the airport. That’s because airport police are now using civil forfeiture – a common practice on the nation’s highways — ...

Sweating heavily and wearing too much cologne apparently helped lead to the seizure of $16,000 from a California farmer who had travelled to Montana in part to buy farm equipment. To add insult to injury, the money was taken without ...

Imagine boarding a train in Michigan with your luggage and your entire life’s savings – $16,000 – as you embark for a new life in California. Then, DEA agents at one station hop on the train and begin asking passengers ...

It apparently is no longer safe to carry large sums of cash with you when you travel in America. Joseph Rivers learned this lesson the hard way when the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) took his entire life’s savings — $16,000 ...