Opinion
2:13-MC-00012-GEB-CKD
02-12-2013
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. APPROXIMATELY $30,020.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY, and A $20,000.00 CASHIER'S CHECK, Defendant.
BENJAMIN B. WAGNER United States Attorney KEVIN C. KHASIGIAN Assistant U.S. Attorney Attorneys for the United States DAVID M. MICHAEL Attorney for Claimants Nicholas Jason Street, Nancy Sopeany Pheng Street and SANSCO
BENJAMIN B. WAGNER
United States Attorney
KEVIN C. KHASIGIAN
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Attorneys for the United States
STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING
TIME FOR FILING A COMPLAINT FOR
FORFEITURE AND/OR TO OBTAIN AN
INDICTMENT ALLEGING FORFEITURE
It is hereby stipulated by and between the United States of America and claimants Nicholas Jason Street, Nancy Sopeany Pheng Street, and SANSCO ("claimants"), by and through their respective attorneys, as follows:
1. In fall 2012, claimants filed a claim, in administrative forfeiture proceedings instituted by the Drug Enforcement Administration with respect to the approximately $30,020.00 in U.S. Currency and $20,000.00 Cashier's Check (hereafter the "defendant funds"), which were seized on or about June 13, 2012. There is a dispute as to the date on which Claimants filed their administrative claims and the date within which the United States was obliged to file its Complaint for Forfeiture. Claimants have filed a motion for return of property regarding these issues. See E.D. Cal. Case No. 2:12-SW-00303-DAD Document 8, filed 12/19/12. That matter is pending before this Court.
2. The Drug Enforcement Administration has sent the written notice of intent to forfeit required by 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(1)(A) to all known interested parties. The time has expired for any person to file a claim to the defendant funds under 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(2)(A)-(E), and no person other than claimants has filed a claim to the defendant funds as required by law in the administrative forfeiture proceeding.
3. Under 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(3)(A), the United States is required to file a complaint for forfeiture against the defendant funds and/or to obtain an indictment alleging that the defendant funds are subject to forfeiture within 90 days after a claim has been filed in the administrative forfeiture proceedings, unless the court extends the deadline for good cause shown or by agreement of the parties. That deadline is currently February 15, 2013.
4. The parties hereby agree that, by stipulating to this extension of time to April 9, 2013 for the United States to file their complaint for forfeiture based on the government's computation of the present deadline of February 15, 2013, Claimants do not waive any of the rights they have asserted in their motion for return of property including the dates in which the parties were obliged to perform any act related to this matter.
5. Accordingly, and subject to the above, the parties agree that the deadline by which the United States shall be required to file a complaint for forfeiture against the defendant funds and/or to obtain an indictment alleging that the defendant funds are subject to forfeiture shall be extended to April 9, 2013.
BENJAMIN B. WAGNER
United States Attorney
By: _______________
KEVIN C. KHASIGIAN
Assistant U.S. Attorney
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DAVID M. MICHAEL
Attorney for Claimants Nicholas Jason Street,
Nancy Sopeany Pheng Street and SANSCO
(Authorized by email)
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.
Senior United States District Judge