Thompson v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ELAINE E. BUCKLO, District Judge.

Marvel Thompson (“Thompson”) moves pursuant to Rule 41(g) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for the return of cash and property that the government seized from him during the execution of several search and arrest warrants in 2004. For the reasons explained below, Thompson’s motion is granted in part and denied in part.

I

In May 2004, the government arrested Thompson and charged him and forty-six other defendants with a drug conspiracy. At the time of Thompson’s arrest, the government seized $320,055.25 in United States…