$4,900 Found Sewn Into Passenger’s Underwear At Logan Airport

CBS Boston ^ | November 15, 2018

[ConservativeStatement]

BOSTON (CBS) – Customs officers at Logan International Airport seized about $27,000 from an Indonesian couple, including $4,900 that was sewn inside a woman’s underwear.

The incident happened November 8, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said.

[StolarStorm]

How much cash someone carries is there business. The “war on cash” is another example of big government control.

[Vaquero]

I’m confused. What was the crime?

[Sacajaweau]

I’m guessing undeclared.

[Hot Tabasco]

What was the crime?

Stinky bucks......

[PAR35]

What was the crime?

Failure to fill out proper forms, to start with.

[ConservativeStatement]

They declared less than they were carrying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6fhU8ozrM

[cornfedcowboy]

It’s against the law to deface currency.

[editor-surveyor]

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Possessing cash.

[Bonemaker]

Is money illegal now thanks to Bush and Obama policies?

[Fightin Whitey]

What was the crime?

Filthy lucre.

[PAR35]

How much cash someone carries is there business.

So you don't support and defend the Constitution?

[Zhang Fei]

It’s long past time to repeal the law that allows for these seizures without due process.

[blueunicorn6]

Maybe that’s an Indonesian custom.

Maybe it’s for good luck.

I’ve always had good luck after I find a few thousand bucks in my shorts.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m confused. What was the crime?

Transporting more than 10K without declaring it.

[Songcraft]

See, all that gruelingly intimate TSA digging around does serve at least one purpose.   (And here was their first clue...)
       

[xrmusn]

Did she pull a Fawn Hall or was the money sewed in her dainties in a suitcase?

[ConservativeStatement]

It looks as if it was stored in luggage.

[Chode]

what ever happened to the two Japanese who got caught trying to enter Switzerland with a false bottom suitcase with U.S. Treasury Bonds worth $135 billion dollars???

[Gay State Conservative]

Every country I've entered in recent years (including the US) has asked if you're carrying over "X" dollars,pounds,euros,yen,etc in cash or convertible instruments...and that sum usually comes to something close to $10,000 US dollars.If you don't declare it it can be seized.

I recently saw a video on youtube about a British government agency that questions people at Heathrow who are *leaving* the country and if you're found to be carrying large sums of cash they can demand that you give proof that it's "legitimate". And if they're not satisfied with your proof they seize it.