Police raid finds no drugs, but officers leave with thousands in cash
Police raided Miguel Zeldon’s home in Philadelphia looking for drugs. No drugs were found, but police confiscated thousands of dollars in cash.
Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
California husband and wife Henry and Minh Cheng own a jewelry business, and earlier this year they sold a bulk order of gold chains to a retailer in Virginia, which agreed to mail $43,000 in exchange. The money never made it.
Police officers in Indiana, where the package was routed through a FedEx shipping facility, seized the cash. Neither the Chengs nor the Virginia retailer were charged with a crime, the nonprofit law firm representing them says, but the government took the money, claiming that large…
