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EAST ST. LOUIS – Drug agents seized $968,955 in cash from a rental car on Interstate 70 in July, according to a forfeiture petition in U.S. district court.
Assistant U.S. attorney Adam Hanna filed the petition on Dec. 18, claiming the cash was to be exchanged for a controlled substance.
He wrote that the government deposited the cash in an asset forfeiture account at Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.
As of Dec. 21, the government had not filed criminal charges against the car’s occupants, Yuzhu Liu and Hsu Chi Suen.
Hanna attached a declaration from Drug Enforcement Administration officer Kyle Waddington, providing the following account: