Re: amount of cash
There was a pretty well publicized case about a year ago where 3 guys flew to Chicago from Mexico with approx $130K in cash. They rented a van and were driving to another state when a police officer stopped them. The cash was confiscated and kept even though the guys were never convicted of any crime.
The police had some probable cause. Namely that the 3 guys were not US citizens, they had traveled on one way tickets, were carrying a large amount of cash and drug dogs alerted to some of the cash. In addition, the guys were evasive about who had rented the van (this could have been partly due to the fact that they did not speak English). The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in the end, the state kept the cash even though they could not prove that any crime had been committed.
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