Legal Opinion
Martin Onwubiko v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 15, 1992No. 1560, Docket 91-2591PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
When Martin Onwubiko was arrested at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, he was carrying 72 heroin-filled balloons in his digestive tract. Onwubiko was also carrying a garment bag, $2,483 in United States currency, his passport, and a return plane ticket to Nigeria. The Drug Enforcement Administration seized everything. Now, Onwubiko wants his personal proper ty back, but the government claims that most of it has been administratively forfeited to the United States. Because the district court improperly treated Onwubiko’s papers as a motion for return of…
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