United States v. Ninety One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Dollars ($91,960.00), Luis Mario Rosario

BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

Luis Rosario appeals the district court’s 1 judgment subjecting $91,960.00 in seized currency to forfeiture as drug proceeds under 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6) (1982). Rosario contends that the judgment should be reversed because DEA agents seized the money in violation of his fourth amendment rights and because the Government failed to demonstrate probable cause for connecting the seized money to the exchange of controlled substances. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On March 19, 1987, at about 6:30 a.m., airport security officers at St. Louis International Airport, acting in…