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ELVIS MITCHELL GETS SOME OF HIS CASH RETURNED: Border agents seized thousands at Detroit-Windsor tunnel.
*Film critic Elvis Mitchell will get back some of the money seized by border agents at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel when he failed to declare thousands of dollars upon entry into the U.S.
Federal prosecutors have agreed to return $5,880 to Mitchell, nearly half the $12,000 seized by the feds in April, reports the Associated Press. Anyone carrying more than $10,000 into the U.S. must report it.
Mitchell, a film critic for The New York Times and NPR, among others, was entering Detroit in a cab from Canada when most of the money was discovered in a cigar box, along with 15 Cuban cigars, which are illegal to import.
Mitchell said the whole thing was a big mistake. He claimed to have grabbed the wrong cigar box when he left New York for Toronto on the first leg of his trip.
"If we believed it was from an unlawful source, or intended for an unlawful purpose, we would not have settled the case," Assistant U.S. Attorney Rita Foley said Thursday. She declined to discuss how the government settled on 49 percent for Mitchell.
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