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Man, daughter suing after $82K life savings seized at Pittsburgh International Airport
WPXI ^ | January 16, 2020

Posted on 01/16/2020 4:05:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A local man’s life savings of more than $82,000 was seized at Pittsburgh International Airport in August, and now he and his daughter are suing, Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE reported.

Rebecca Brown, 54, of Lowell, Mass., told TribLIVE her 79-year-old retired father, Terry Rolin, of South Fayette Township, asked her to help manage the cash he and his late parents had hidden in hiding spots throughout the family home.

“It was late Saturday night after the banks closed when he gave me the money, and I had an early (Monday) morning flight home. So, I didn’t get a chance to get to a bank in Pittsburgh,” Brown told TribLIVE. “I was concerned about traveling with cash, so I checked online and found out it was legal to travel domestically with cash.

Brown told TribLIVE she was carrying the cash in a small, zippered bag inside a satchel when she was questioned about it by a Transportation Security Agency agent at a security checkpoint. After getting to the gate, she said she was approached by a state trooper and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: airport; assetforfeiture; civilassetforfeiture; dea; forfeiture; pittsburgh; seizure; wod
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1 posted on 01/16/2020 4:05:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I would be suspicious too.


2 posted on 01/16/2020 4:06:26 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh my.


3 posted on 01/16/2020 4:08:03 AM PST by MustKnowHistory
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To: yldstrk

Being suspicious and confiscating it w/o proving any of those suspicions are two different things...


4 posted on 01/16/2020 4:09:41 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I hope the two get their money back quickly. The government should not seize someone’s money or any property with a court order or direct evidence of a crime.


5 posted on 01/16/2020 4:10:00 AM PST by Blennos
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To: trebb

That is a good point


6 posted on 01/16/2020 4:10:38 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Even the bank has to report deposits over $10K these days.


7 posted on 01/16/2020 4:12:43 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What’s next? Seizing your checking account or 401k because some suspicious official thinks you have too much money? This is the stuff of tyranny.


8 posted on 01/16/2020 4:12:55 AM PST by Blennos
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

All they had to do...was walk into some local credit union...open a simple account. A week later, have a cashier’s check ‘cut’, and she could have carried that check anywhere, and no one would say much of anything.

I would imagine if you forced federal law enforcement to report incidents like this....there’s probably twenty episodes a week...across the US, where they ‘steal’ the money. Some might be drug traffic cash, but the bulk is just naive people thinking it’s legal to do so.


9 posted on 01/16/2020 4:14:37 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's not their money - it belongs to the Government.

Now shut up and get back in line....

10 posted on 01/16/2020 4:19:23 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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To: jazminerose

And withdrawals


11 posted on 01/16/2020 4:21:41 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Obama gave Iran nearly 2 billion dollars in cash.


12 posted on 01/16/2020 4:21:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Would have been safer to buy meth, sell it, use the profits to buy a car wash, then deposit the rest.


13 posted on 01/16/2020 4:22:13 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Guys, I think I see why they seized it. This is more complicated than it looks in the story above.

South Fayette retiree, daughter sue to recover $82K seized at Pittsburgh airport

I'm glad the cash was seized pending an investigation.

14 posted on 01/16/2020 4:22:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: pepsionice

But but but she had a flight to catch and not enough time to get to the bank. I think she actually ripped dear old dad off and that is why their stories didn’t match up.


15 posted on 01/16/2020 4:23:05 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: jazminerose

US Bank is even worse. I know a local business owner, he had to fill out paper work for a $3,000.00 deposit. Also they were suspicious of him depositing over $1,000.00 in quarters. Keep in mind he owns a coin shop and often buys state quarter rolls at face value. (because they have no value)


16 posted on 01/16/2020 4:25:51 AM PST by LukeL
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To: Psalm 73

Uppity serfs. How stupid can they be?


17 posted on 01/16/2020 4:25:54 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"It was late Saturday night after the banks closed when he gave me the money..."

Walking into a bank with that much cash will involve the feds just as surely as being caught carrying it.

18 posted on 01/16/2020 4:25:55 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: pepsionice

The bulk is people naively thinking that peons are allowed to be free of tyranny.


19 posted on 01/16/2020 4:27:01 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: pepsionice
but the bulk is just naive people thinking it’s legal to do so

It IS legal to do so.

20 posted on 01/16/2020 4:29:40 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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