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Parties Involved:
Approximately $14,000.00 in U.S. Currency
Defendant
Approximately $15,020.00 in U.S. Currency
Defendant
United States of America
Plaintiff

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Stipulation and Order to Extend Time

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

APPROXIMATELY $15,020.00 IN 

U.S. CURRENCY, and 

APPROXIMATELY $14,000.00 IN 

U.S. CURRENCY,

Defendants.

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STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING 

TIME FOR FILING A COMPLAINT FOR 

FORFEITURE AND/OR TO OBTAIN AN 

INDICTMENT ALLEGING FORFEITURE

It is hereby stipulated by and between the United States of America and potential claimants Ricky 

Wise (“claimants” or “Wise”) and Valencia C. Hawthorne (“claimants” or “Hawthorne”), by and 

through their respective counsel, as follows:

1. On or about October 15, 2014, claimants Wise and Hawthorne filed claims in the 

administrative forfeiture proceeding with the Drug Enforcement Administration with respect to the 

Approximately $15,020.00 in U.S. Currency (the “Wise defendant currency”) and 

Approximately $14,000.00 in U.S. Currency (the “Hawthorne defendant currency” and 

together with the Wise defendant currency, collectively, the “defendant currency”), which 

was seized on or about July 31, 2014.

2. The Drug Enforcement Administration has sent the written notice of intent to forfeit 

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

KEVIN C. KHASIGIAN

Assistant U. S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2700

Attorneys for the United States

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required by 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(1)(A) to all known interested parties. The time has expired for any 

person to file a claim to the defendant currency under 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(2)(A)-(E), and no person other 

than claimant has filed a claim to the defendant currency as required by law in the administrative 

forfeiture proceeding.

3. Under 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(3)(A), the United States is required to file a complaint for 

forfeiture against the defendant currency and/or to obtain an indictment alleging that the defendant 

currency is subject to forfeiture within ninety days after a claim has been filed in the administrative 

forfeiture proceeding, unless the court extends the deadline for good cause shown or by agreement of the 

parties. That deadline is January 13, 2015.

4. As provided in 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(3)(A), the parties wish by agreement to extend to 

March 13, 2015, the time in which the United States is required to file a civil complaint for forfeiture 

against the defendant currency and/or to obtain an indictment alleging that the defendant currency is 

subject to forfeiture.

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5. Accordingly, the parties agree that the deadline by which the United States shall be 

required to file a complaint for forfeiture against the defendant currency and/or to obtain an indictment 

alleging that the defendant currency is subject to forfeiture shall be extended to March 13, 2015.

Dated: 1/9/2015 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Kevin C. Khasigian

KEVIN C. KHASIGIAN

Assistant U.S. Attorney

Dated: 1/9/2015 /s/ Robert E. Webb

ROBERT E. WEBB

Attorney for potential claimants

Ricky Wise

Valencia C. Hawthorne

(Authorized via e-mail)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 14, 2015

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