A customer at work asked me this question and I had no idea.  He said that a friend of his told him that a maximum of $10,000 (U.S. dollars) can be carried at the airport because of added security from drug dealers.  Is this true?
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You could carry as much as you want at the airport, in trash bags if you like. Carrying it onto an airplane that is leaving the country is where it gets tricky.\n\nThe US Customs service says that you can only take $10,000 without declaring it. Actually, if you declare it, in theory you could take any amount out of the country. \n\nSome countries actually do have limits as to how much money you can take into their borders, so you have to be careful at both ends of the trip.\n\nHere are the facts straight from the Customs Bureau:\n\nIt is legal to transport any amount of currency or other monetary instruments into or out of the United States.  However, if you transport, attempt to transport, or cause to be transported currency or other monetary instruments in an aggregate amount exceeding $10,000 (or its foreign  equivalent) at one time from the United States to any foreign place, or into the United States from any foreign place, you must file a report with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).  This report is called the Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments, FinCEN Form 105 (http://www.fincen.gov/forms/fin105_cmir.pdf).  These forms can be obtained at all U.S. ports of entry and departure.  You may continue to use a Customs Form 4790, the predecessor of FinCEN Form 105, to file the report until such forms are exhausted.  \n\nIn addition to the above requirement, if you as an individual or on behalf of an entity recognized as legal personalities (i.e. a company, corporation, partnership, etc.) sends, mails or ships monetary instruments to the United States from a foreign country valued at $10,000 or more, you are required to file a report with CBP before sending the monetary instruments to the recipient in the foreign country or in the United States.  If you or a legal personality you are affiliated with in the United States receives monetary instruments valued at $10,000 or more, sent via mail, ship, or express courier, you are also required to report to CBP.  You are required to file the report within 15 days upon receipt of the monetary instruments.
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generally not.  Many cards will let you exceed your limits slightly, so they can make big fees for you going a little over the limit.  They will never approve something $1250 higher, just to get a $30 overlimit fee.  $100 higher, maybe.
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Carry money as allowed under the law for travel expenses only.  Cyanide and nuclear documentary materials are prohibited in baggages unless authorized under the statutes.
143995
They are coming down hard in the War on Drugs. I would have to say it is a Fifth Degree Possession charge. Since they are a first time offender the punishment shouldn't be that stiff. Even an empty baggy with traces of an illegal drug is considered a small amount. Residue on a scale is also considered a small amount. My buddy had just gotten out of jail after 4 months and didn't realize there was a leftover empty baggy in her purse from months before. She got pulled over on a routine traffic stop. Since she was on probation that gave them a right to search. They found the empty baggy with traces on it. I write to her in prison now.
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in most states, you can open an account regardless of citizenship.  banks are responsible to recognize and stop laundering.  although it sucks that people can come to this county, make money off the books without paying taxes, then send it back to the country they came from, it's not illegal. money laundering is a much more complicated process where money that is attained through illegal activities such as drug dealing and gun running, is wired from acct to acct, in hopes to disguise the money as something else, usually some sort of "foundation" or something.
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It is not Illegal to deposit more than $10,000.00 in cash in one day.\n\nHowever, if you do deposit more than $10,000.00 in cash in one day you move yourself to the "black list" of the United States of America Government.\n\nThis means you are now a potential\nTerrorist, Drug Dealer, Arms Dealer or just someone evading Taxes.\n\nThe IRS does not have enough resources to audit 300,000,000.00 Citizens and they try to target just the wealthy ones.\n\nImagine there is a list with William H. Gates III at the Top (The Richest Man Alive) and the name of the someone broke at the Bottom.\n\nThey are not going to go after the taxpayer 300,000,000 because even if they find he has not paid enough taxes what are they going to take away from him if he is broke.\n\nWhen you deposit $10,000.00 in one day (It takes more than 200 Days of Minimum Wage to make that kind of money) you move your name to a position very high on the list (Not as high as Tom Cruise that maybe deposits $100,000.00 in one day but high enough)\n\nThat is not wise.\n\nI strongly suggest you to always deposit $9,000.00 or less PER DAY.
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Hobby airport in Houston Texass It took Lil old me over a hour to get through security. Don't EVER buy a cash ticket the day before you fly from Houston to Orlando they will think you are a drug dealer and search you and all your luggage even checked !
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Due to our constitution, basically no criminal charge is summary. All are subject to a trial and require an indictment of some sort. Some do not require a grand jury indictment, and this is likely one of them. The amount has everything to do with what you are charged with. The weight of the drug determines whether they charge you with simple possession or trafficking possession (if you intended to sell it) and what degree of possession.
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Illegal off-shore banking of drug money.
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Not sure about California, but in many states, the arresting agency can seize anything used in drug related activities, including vehicles, money, laptops, phones, etc.
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Let me get this straight.....You're taking 12 milg of Xanax before you get on the plane?  Or, you're bringing 12milg with you?  I would make sure I have the pharmacy bottle with your name on it.  They checked my son's bottle which was in his carry on.
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Both my husband and I agree, if offered more than $100,000 we would take it. After that, yea..people just get greedy thinking that they will win the big money on chance in a suitcase.\n\nBetter to go home with some money, than look like a fool on national tv for passing it up.
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Selling drugs is ILLEGAL!!! Stay away from the house. If the Police raid it and you are there you will be charged with frequenting a known drug establishment. It doesnt matter if they sell once a day or 100 times a day. A drug house is a drug house.
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I think the fact that you can't bring toiletries and food on planes was an elaborate scam by the food and cosmetic industries to make us buy more of these items we have to throw away before boarding.  Then after we throw out our perfumes and colognes they recycle them and sell them back to us!\n\n*I don't really think this, but the fact crossed my mind when I had my cologne confiscated at the airport and I had to buy a new one ($40...damn)\n\nHonestly this is such a great question.
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You are absolutely right, these security precautions are  window dressing. Unfortunately that's really all we can do. Airport security is simply for the peace of mind of the passengers.  I think that's all law enforcement is, window dressing. In a free society, that's what we get, it's a trade off for freedom.  If someone wants to break the law, they will. But the only way to prevent someone from breaking the law in the first place is to enact something out of 1984, and I sure don't want to be a part of that.\nI seriously doubt that if airport security had confiscated the box cutters on 9/11 it would have stopped those guys from highjacking the planes! they would have done whatever they had to. The more we try to control the future the more out of control this country is going to get. This crap happens, there is nothing anyone can do to stop bad things from happening to good people. We need more faith, not more security.\nGood luck, and calm down, it's going to be ok.
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Usually anything over $2000. USD is a felony.  So from minor to major...alot less than 100,000.
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yap. they have sniffing dogs to trace for a possible drugs in your baggage. keep your plan of becoming an officer(narcotics) your not the one sniffing it... just kiddding...