United States v. Two Hundred Seventy Four Thousand & Four Hundred & Eighty One Dollars

OPINION & ORDER

CEREZO, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff filed this civil forfeiture suit on August 19,1994. Notice allowing any person having a claim in this case to state it before the court was published on September 21, 1994 in El Nuevo Día. A warrant of arrest in rem was issued and executed upon the in rem defendant on October 13, 1994 and the process return form was filed with the Court. The ten day period provided by the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims for interested persons to file claims elapsed without any having been filed and on February 6, 1995 the government…