Posted on 08/09/2014 9:52:17 PM PDT by kiryandil
A Florida woman was allegedly caught carrying almost $41,000 through customs, with much of the cash reportedly hidden in her undergarments.
Victoria Faren, 78, and her daughter were stopped April 2 while trying to board a flight to the Philippines out of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, federal court records indicate.
The court records, filed Friday, recount the strange incident, during which customs agents discovered the elderly woman allegedly attempting to smuggle the cash through airport security.
When Faren and her daughter were first asked by officers how much money they were carrying, Faren reportedly said she was carrying $200. Her daughter reported carrying $1,200.
Records indicate Faren later reported carrying $1,200 on a written declaration, a figure change that made officials suspicious.
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Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.[1]
Local police did this to someone I know. She was carrying around her life savings in the form of cashier checks. Held on to it for two weeks and was threatening to file money laundering charges. A lawyer questioned where the search warrant was that allowed them to go through her purse. They didn't have one. They gave it back to her about an hour later. If the lawyer hadn't taken her case without first getting paid, she probably would have lost the money because she had no funds left to fight with.
Years ago, before 911, my husband would carry 20 thousand dollars in cash when he visited the Philippines. Most of it was given away...school fees, gifts to his large extended family, and even a dollar to to the old folks who farmed his mom’s land 30 years ago.
Even in the US he took cash to shop. He distrusted credit cards.
You also see it in the US in very old people. They remember the depression and don’t trust banks.
She should have just wired it there the way all of the Mexicans do with the cash they earn here.
This has been going on at airports for decades. Never carry more than a few hundred dollars to an airport. They can “assume” you’re going somewhere to buy drugs if you’ve got a lot of cash on you. It used to be reported on the news a lot. Not so much these days.
Dang...you can almost read the serial numbers on her implants.
That’s just sick.
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The American Wall - and we used to hammer the former Soviet bloc over the Berlin Wall.
The Founders would have come out with guns blazing.
This is a common misconception that our Owners would like us to continue believing.
Actually, the Owners have their Banksters flag ANY "unusual" transactions. So, if you have a normal month-to-month banking pattern/routine, and you take out $600 in cash to pay some tradesman under the table for his services, the government gets a heads-up. Not about your transaction with the tradesman, just that you took out $600 that you don't normally take out.
After all, it's The King's Money - he's just allowing you to use it.
Come to think of it, unless Victoria was VERY careful, she was probably on a number of "exception reports", and the Owners' representatives at the airport probably had access to one or more of them.
LOL! I just realized how full of it I am!
In California, the Founders wouldn't have been able to purchase any ammunition for their guns, and in the rest of the country, the ammunition purchases would have been flagged as "suspicious", and the Founders would have been arrested for conspiracy, and multiple other felonies "to be determined later"...
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