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Some folks traveling by air with lots of cash have run into big problems with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at Detroit Metro Airport and elsewhere.
From 2006 to mid-2015, DEA agents assigned to 15 major airports across the U.S. seized more than $203 million in cash, says an article by USA Today and the Detroit Free Press reports.
In Detroit, the figures amounts to about $7.5 million in seizures.
Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to spot people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers, a USA Today investigation found..
But in most cases, the USA Today investigation found that agents gave the suspected couriers a receipt for the seized cash and sent them on their way without charging them with a crime.
People who have cash seized can appeal to the government to try and get the money back.
