Hello:
I found your site on the internet while doing research on behalf of a friend who has a legal issue in Mexico and asked me to help him get some basic answers to questions regarding his status.
Here is the situation:
A couple of weeks ago he was arrested at the Mexico City airport (when changing planes on his way to Panama for a coin conference) for improper declaration of some gold coins he was carrying. He is certain he filled out the declaration form correctly (as he had when he departed the US) stating that he carrying commodity items, as the coins have no numeristic value, just bullion.
He spent several days in jail and was then transferred to the immigration detention center at which time bail ($700) was set and posted. He was released with all his possessions, including passport, EXCEPT the gold coins he was arrested with and is now staying in a hotel working on what he called his "declaration", which must be presented to a judge within 5 days. He is getting conflicting legal advise on several matters. He needs a clarification on on the following:
One attorney said that if he were to come back to the US before the case is settled and forfeit his coins, the US and Mexican governments have agreements that would result in US authorities arresting me and handing me back to the Mexican authorities.
If you could help with this question, it would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Bill Toll
I found your site on the internet while doing research on behalf of a friend who has a legal issue in Mexico and asked me to help him get some basic answers to questions regarding his status.
Here is the situation:
A couple of weeks ago he was arrested at the Mexico City airport (when changing planes on his way to Panama for a coin conference) for improper declaration of some gold coins he was carrying. He is certain he filled out the declaration form correctly (as he had when he departed the US) stating that he carrying commodity items, as the coins have no numeristic value, just bullion.
He spent several days in jail and was then transferred to the immigration detention center at which time bail ($700) was set and posted. He was released with all his possessions, including passport, EXCEPT the gold coins he was arrested with and is now staying in a hotel working on what he called his "declaration", which must be presented to a judge within 5 days. He is getting conflicting legal advise on several matters. He needs a clarification on on the following:
One attorney said that if he were to come back to the US before the case is settled and forfeit his coins, the US and Mexican governments have agreements that would result in US authorities arresting me and handing me back to the Mexican authorities.
If you could help with this question, it would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Bill Toll
assault with intent to commit murder; mutilation; piracy; arson; rape; kidnapping, defining the same to be the taking and carrying away of a free person by force or deception; forgery, including the forging or making, or knowingly passing or putting in circulation counterfeit coin or bank notes, or other paper current as money, with intent to defraud any person or persons; the introduction or making of instruments for the fabrication of counterfeit coin or bank notes, or other paper current as money; embezzlement of public moneys; robbery, defining the same to be the felonious and forcible taking from the person of another of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear; burglary, defining the same to be breaking and entering into the house of another with intent to commit felony; and the crime of larceny, of cattle, or other goods and chattels, of the value of twenty-five dollars or more, when the same is committed within the frontier States or Territories of the contracting parties. 