{"id":20205,"date":"2014-01-08T20:18:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=20205"},"modified":"2014-01-08T20:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T01:18:22","slug":"customs-officials-jamaica-trip-costly-for-2-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=20205","title":{"rendered":"Customs officials: Jamaica trip costly for 2 women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officers seize nearly $100,000 in separate incidents of reporting failure<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
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\"Image<\/a>Have more than $10,000 that you want to transport in or out of the U.S.? No problem, federal officials say, as long as you disclose it properly.<\/p>\n

Two women headed to Jamaica this past weekend could have used a primer on federal currency reporting regulations, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Instead, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers ended up seizing a combined $96,683 from the women, the release said.<\/p>\n

CBP officers stopped the first woman as she attempted to board a flight to Montego Bay from Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 4. CBP officers explained federal currency reporting regulations to the woman and she reported that she possessed $4,900. A CBP examination of both the woman\u2019s carry-on bag and her checked luggage revealed a total of $65,643, including some currency concealed inside children\u2019s shoes, the release said.<\/p>\n

The following day, CBP officers stopped another woman boarding the Montego Bay-bound flight. After CBP officers explained the currency reporting regulations, the woman reported $5,000 to $6,000. She then removed an envelope from her carry-on bag that contained $10,700. CBP officers then discovered an additional $13,340 in the woman\u2019s carry-on bag. The woman then admitted that there was additional currency in her checked luggage. CBP officers counted a total of $31,040, the release said.<\/p>\n

Neither woman was criminally charged; CBP officers confiscated the currency and released the women, the release said, adding that there is no limit to how much currency that travelers can bring into, or take out of the U.S. Travelers are required to report amounts of $10,000 or more in U.S. dollars, equivalent foreign currency, or other monetary instruments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are two very expensive lessons that these women learned, and we hope that this experience entices other travelers to truthfully report to Customs and Border Protection officers the total amount of currency that they bring to the U.S., or intend to take from the U.S.,\u201d said Tarance Drafts, Acting CBP Port Director for the Area Port of Philadelphia. \u201cCBP derives no great pleasure from seizing travelers\u2019 currency. However, there are severe consequences for failing to comply with our nation\u2019s laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBP\u2019s Port of Philadelphia seized $1,319,195 in unreported currency during the \u00a02013 fiscal year (Oct. 1, 2012 \u2013 Sept. 30, 2013). CBP routinely conducts inspections on arriving and departing international passengers and cargo, and searches for terrorist weapons, dangerous drugs, unreported currency, counterfeit merchandise, prohibited agriculture, and other illicit products, the release said.<\/p>\n

Travelers are encouraged to visit CBP\u2019s Travel website at\u00a0http:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/xp\/cgov\/travel\/<\/a>\u00a0to learn rules governing travel to and from the U.S., prohibited and admissible items, and what items they must declare to CBP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Officers seize nearly $100,000 in separate incidents of reporting failure Have more than $10,000 that you want to transport in or out of the U.S.? No problem, federal officials say, as long as you disclose it properly. Two women headed to Jamaica this past weekend could have used a primer on federal currency reporting regulations, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,317],"tags":[4740,4741,4742,4231],"class_list":["post-20205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","tag-acting-cbp-port-director-for-the-area-port-of-philadelphia","tag-customs-and-border-protection-cbp","tag-tarance-drafts","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}