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Nature of Suit Code: 625
Nature of Suit: Drug Related Seizure of Property
Cause of Action: 21:0881 Forfeiture Property - Drugs

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

$15,600.00 in U.S. CURRENCY,

Defendant.

Case No.: 18-CV-637 JLS (BGS)

ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE 

MOTION

(ECF No. 2)

Presently before the Court is Plaintiff the United States of America’s Ex Parte 

Motion to Appoint the United States Marshal as Custodian and to Deposit Defendant 

Currency in Seized Assets Deposit Accounts and to Substitute the Res, (“MTN,” ECF No. 

2). Plaintiff requests an exception to General Order 273 which relieves the United States 

Marshal from his duties of seizing and storing property. (Id. at 1; see S.D. Cal. General 

Order 273 (outlining general guidelines “In the Matter of Appointing Substitute Custodian 

for Seized Property”, http://sp.casd.circ9.dcn/General%20Orders/GO_273.pdf).) Plaintiff 

states the United States Marshals Service has consented to assume responsibility for the 

protection of the defendant currency and has established the Seized Assets Deposit 

Account for the deposit of seized currency until further order of the Court. (MTN 1.)

Good cause appearing, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s Motion and:

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(1) ORDERS that the United States Marshal SHALL be custodian of the defendant 

currency on behalf of this Court until further Order; and

(2) ORDERS that the United States Marshal SHALL deposit the defendant 

currency in the Seized Assets Deposit Account which shall be substituted as the res in this 

action. See United States v. $57,480.05 U.S. Currency & Other Coins, 722 F.2d 1457, 

1459 (9th Cir. 1984) (tacitly approving account-for-currency res substitution).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 2, 2018

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