United States of America, Plaintiff-Counterdefendant/appellant v. $25,000 U.S. Currency, and Tomasino Gino Cirimele, Claimant/appellee

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

The United States filed a civil forfeiture action pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6) against money seized from Tomasino Ciri-mele (“Cirimele”) following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport. Ciri-mele moved to suppress the evidence obtained from him at the airport. The district court granted Cirimele’s motion, stating that the agents did not have a reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity so as to justify Cirimele’s detention. Cirimele .thereafter moved for summary judgment against the government in the forfeiture action. The…