Feds to keep $138,121 in cash because it smelled like pot

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A default judgment filed in Minnesota’s U.S. District Court on May 28 by Judge Michael Davis allows the federal government to keep a whole bunch of cash originally seized at MSP Airport merely because it smelled like pot.
But the feds don’t keep to keep the $138,121 because it smelled like pot. Instead, the legal rationale hinges on the fact that “Robert L. Casteel and all unknown persons and entities… have failed to file a verified claim to the defendant currency,” the judgement in United States of America v. $138,121.00 in U.S. Currency says.
The Riverfront Times has more.

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