POTTSTOWN PA – Is money missing from your wallet? Check quickly, or by Monday (June 13, 2011) forever hold your peace, the Montgomery County (PA) District Attorney‘s office warns.
The district attorney in an advertisement earlier this week announced it was holding, and actively seeking the owners of, more than $17,000 in cash that was seized by law enforcement officials between 2004 and 2010.
Of that sum, more than $3,000 was secured from intersections in the borough of Pottstown, according to the legal notice that appeared Monday (June 6) in The (Norristown) Times Herald newspaper.
There’s a good chance few people, if any, will step forward to claim the held funds.
Most were discovered during the course of criminal investigations (that’s why they’re in the DA’s hands), and a substantial portion if not all of the cash often represents illegally gotten gains. Except in certain circumstances, individuals who file a claim may have a lot of explaining to do.
The DA is required to publicly disclose the availability of the money for claiming. If any of it is yours (and you know who you are), a claim must be entered on or before the end of business Monday with the county Clerk of Courts, reports Assistant DA James Staerk, who submitted the legal notice.
The total includes:
- $2,687 seized Nov. 27, 2004, “at or near Walnut Street and North Franklin Street, Pottstown;”
- $540 seized Dec. 10, 2004, “at or near North Franklin Street and King Street, Pottstown;”
- $4,525 secured last June “at or near 3301 Walnut Ridge Estates” on Buchert Road in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township; and
- other money captured in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, Willow Grove (listed twice), Philadelphia, Norristown (twice), Huntingdon Valley, Bala Cynwyd, Eagleville, Lansdale, and Abington.
The ad does not report what becomes of the money if no one claims it, although once the Monday deadline is passed it’s likely the government will say “finders, keepers!”
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