Criminal
Jul. 9, 2010
Cash Seized at DUI Check Returned
A federal judge said it was "probably drug money" police took from the Sinaloa, Mexico man but it violated U.S. seizure laws.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - In a costly example of a bust gone wrong, federal prosecutors agreed to hand over more than half a million dollars of what a U.S. District judge called "probably drug money" to a suspected trafficker from Sinaloa, Mexico.
Under the unusually large deal, the government will return half of the $1,030,645 that Azusa police officers seized last year in a routine DUI ...
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