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After FinCEN’s Armored Car Order, a Spike in South Cali Cash Seizures

By Kira Zalan

A U.S. Treasury Department order last summer calling for greater reporting by armored car companies in Southern California has driven a sharp spike in federal cash seizures near San Diego. Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized $883,705 bound from Tijuana to San Diego County in the first half of fiscal year 2015-a sum slightly higher than that seized at area border crossings during the entire previous fiscal year and hundreds of thousands of dollars more than seized in earlier periods, according to statistics obtained by ACAMS moneylaundering.com. The uptick is the result of a 6-month geographic targeting order...

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