Don Mellein and Jeni Pearsons are suing the government alleging the FBI seized, then lost their property through the 'shady' process of civil forfeiture.
Don Mellein and Jeni Pearsons are suing the government alleging the FBI seized, then lost their property through the "shady" process of civil forfeiture.
"There’s literally been no explanation," Pearsons said."I think you have to assume that it's the simplest explanation, and I think, unfortunately, the simplest explanation is they took it or lost it."Mellein, a 79-year-old retired civil servant, kept cash and 110 gold coins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in his box to safeguard his financial security. He invested in the precious metals with the proceeds after he and his wife sold their Malibu home in 2002.
Pearsons teamed up with the Institute for Justice to fight for her property, while Mellein hired an attorney and spent $40,000 to reclaim his items. They both prevailed, but when they went to the agency’s Los Angeles office to claim their property, they realized some of their items were missing. seemed to have no record of the missing coins as they weren’t listed on the property receipt of his box’s contents.
"They crowded dozens of agents into this vault, and they spent the next week ransacking through the boxes, looking for cash, looking for property to forfeit," Gay said. Similarly, when Pearsons went to claim her property in 2021, she noticed the $2,000 in cash from her box was missing. "’They've never said, ‘oh, no, that wasn't in the box.’ They just didn't give it back," Pearsons told Fox News."And they told us at the time that someone from the U.S. Marshal's office was going to call and talk to me about it, and then no one ever called.
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