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"confiscate" Definitions
  1. confiscate something to officially take something away from somebody, especially as a punishment

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What about Barack Obama's secret plans to confiscate all guns?
Governments also withhold or confiscate passports of their own citizens.
Allows judges to confiscate weapons from people deemed a threat.
"We will support banks and we won't confiscate assets," he said.
It's the legislation that was first used to confiscate Tūhoe land.
So they'd confiscate their archives, their libraries, or what have you.
Before the changes, employers could confiscate the passports of domestic help.
Before the reforms, employers could confiscate the passports of domestic help.
Now he got to interrogate the Germans and confiscate their weapons.
Government officials confiscate their passports and keep laborers under constant surveillance.
Importantly, the bill will also allow police officers to confiscate refugees' valuables.
In April 2014, federal agents finally moved in to confiscate his livestock.
In New York, health inspectors have begun to confiscate CBD-infused cookies.
The San Isidro Movement says law enforcement proceeded to confiscate Genlui's phone.
"If this president could confiscate every gun in America, he would," Rubio asserted.
Officials said they were able to confiscate some computing devices from the raid.
They might close a newspaper, confiscate passports or lock up the most troublesome.
Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) wanting to confiscate Americans' guns and restrict religious freedom.
AIVD then subsequently entered the Tate Modern to permanently confiscate the uncensored manuscript.
The Secret Service will screen them and security will confiscate signs and posters.
Authorities in Florida say they had no legal authority to confiscate his weapon.
But Razmjou said the IRGC had the right to confiscate the devices, too.
He tells Simon to perform a public execution and to confiscate Jadis' firearms.
When federal officials said they would confiscate the cattle, an armed standoff ensued.
In Obama's case, this involved working with the Russians to confiscate Assad's stockpiles.
But if they insist on getting in, we have to confiscate some things.
The authorities confiscate alcohol at Doha Airport, and drinking in public is banned.
It may restrict his communication with family members and confiscate his licensed gun.
Hitler would be so proud of Hogg for wanting to confiscate everyone's guns.
He rejected accusations that he wants to confiscate guns, calling that a ridiculous idea.
But the Emperor's successes, and his attempts to confiscate territory, alarmed other Protestant powers.
She should just confiscate the phone, forcing her son to focus on his homework.
They have been known to confiscate a jar of jam unless money is paid.
Police confiscate phones to download the information contained on them to scan through later.
This month, Italy's Parliament passed a bill making it easier to confiscate the vessels.
But if they're actually going to confiscate people's clothing, that'll probably cause some minor riots.
I am convinced that if this president could confiscate every gun in America, he would.
But you can only confiscate a property, rob a bank or sell a hostage once.
If that is true, why hasn't the government used the N.F.A. database to confiscate weapons?
William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 to confiscate plantations on the seacoast.
POCA is designed to confiscate from anyone all assets that the government wishes to take.
"Democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens," Trump said to a standing ovation.
Disputes over land sales grew into major campaigns to confiscate territory and reinforce British sovereignty.
The saga led police to suspend his handgun license and confiscate his firearms, he said.
He then casually reached into the back of the vehicle to confiscate some delicious snacks.   Hey.
Ahmad said one of the first things the police did was confiscate his cellphone and computer.
However, it doesn't explicitly require law enforcement to confiscate guns that domestic violence perpetrators already own.
He leaves the rest of the millions for the police to confiscate, sending the boldest message.
Rio police will confiscate passports of US Olympians Gunnar Bentz & Jack Conger and likely release them.
There's a special place in hell for companies that confiscate the tips of low-wage workers.
We are not going to confiscate guns on the scale to make us a disarmed country.
Authorities had raided the university to confiscate materials they said were typically used in violent demonstrations.
For example, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) cannot provide some details on counterfeit products they confiscate.
We can swing by the D.N.C. and finally confiscate that server they rigged the election with.
Asset forfeiture is designed to allow authorities to confiscate cars, houses, and cash from drug lords.
Biden swore at a man in Michigan who had suggested Mr. Biden wanted to confiscate guns.
Winterkorn may be able to keep $12 million in bonus money that prosecutors sought to confiscate.
When this wasn't enough, he began to confiscate estates, antagonizing Roman elites and sometimes killing them.
During his speech Jack Ma called on authorities to confiscate licences from manufacturers making counterfeit products.
"Democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans," he told House Republicans at their retreat.
Prosecutors want to confiscate $14 billion in alleged drug money from Chapo through the asset forfeiture process.
One of the most notorious parts of Kafala is the understanding that employers confiscate the worker's passport.
Virginia can confiscate firearms from anyone who is under a permanent protective order for domestic violence offenses.
Education boards in several provinces have requested schools confiscate the toy if it turns up in class.
"I am convinced that if this president could confiscate every gun in America, he would," Rubio said.
The rule, if implemented, would allow employers of tipped workers to redistribute tips or confiscate them entirely.
In the meantime, they could only confiscate weapons – and try to deal with the carnage left behind.
The protocol will also aid governments that want to confiscate their citizens' wealth for "merely" economic reasons.
It is not a stretch to say there'd be violence if the [government] tried to confiscate them.
It was unclear Saturday whether Saudi Arabia's corruption committee might seek to confiscate any of his assets.
Or it's illegal, meaning the police can stop it and confiscate both the cargo and the truck.
If the person being investigated refuses to explain their wealth, the authorities can still confiscate their property.
Other residents said Aung Thein Mya frequently attended Rohingya weddings, but only to confiscate the fattest chickens.
He had the right to search the car, charge tax on imports or even confiscate our haul.
It is not a stretch to say there'd be violence if the gov't tried to confiscate them.
Authorities confiscate tens of thousands of phones every year—and those are just the ones they find.
The Trump administration would, Congress permitting, confiscate any money sent by unauthorized immigrants back to their relatives.
Iraqi and US officials have said they are worried the insurgents would confiscate any aid sent to Fallujah.
But he was afraid the Iraqi Army would confiscate the books at checkpoints and try to sell them.
In Louisville on Sunday, a prominent NRA member echoed LaPierre's warning that Clinton wants to confiscate their firearms.
The individual mandate is an excuse for the IRS to confiscate money owed to taxpayers via reducing refunds.
Honolulu Police confiscate  Ocean King and  Fish Hunter cabinets in the operation, games nearly identical to  Dragon Hunter.
"The police harass people, ask for money, and confiscate refugees' cards unless they are paid bribes," he added.
There are fewer people and business activities to tax; the same applies to properties and land to confiscate.
Vehicles are prohibited, and pedestrians will be allowed in at only two checkpoints, where police will confiscate contraband.
Rick Scott earlier this month will give the police more power under the Baker Act to confiscate guns.
If so, the court would issue a protective order allowing the police to confiscate a weapon or weapons.
Instead, officers have been instructed to record the person's name, confiscate their devices, and then set them free.
If so, does a government, organization, or anyone else have the "right" to confiscate, use, or monetize them?
Colonists reacted with further resistance, and in April 1775 the British marched to Concord to confiscate colonial arms.
Today, border officers confiscate devices for weeks or months at a time, based on no suspicion at all.
Would people react violently to a mandatory buyback program similar to the one Australia used to confiscate guns?
And Denmark's Parliament is voting today on a proposal to confiscate asylum seekers' valuables to pay for their care.
"Based on our policy, we're not going to arrest you or confiscate marijuana," LAPD spokesperson Alicia Hernandez told McClatchy.
When Grandma walks in with a meal made up of these items, immediately confiscate her phone and search it.
A citizen can refuse to give up the passcodes to their devices, but CBP can then confiscate the items.
In other words, it is Katysv's $14 million that the US is looking to confiscate as ill-gotten gains.
His lawyer contends that the case was fabricated to allow a Chinese state-owned company to confiscate his business.
These allow authorities to confiscate the passports of people suspected of trying to take a girl abroad for FGM.
In the past, courts have seized Cuban assets in the United States, but there are none left to confiscate.
Experts say it is essentially a gateway into a civil recovery order, which allows the authorities to confiscate property.
During the referendum, "the Spanish state didn't just want to confiscate ballot boxes and ballot papers," Mr. Puigdemont said.
Prosecutors asked the Amsterdam court to confiscate 300 million euros and impose a fine of nearly 5 million euros.
Beto O'Rourke's (D-Texas) pledge at this month's Democratic presidential debate that he would confiscate AR-85033 semiautomatic rifles.
The police chased the journalists, with some calling them "coup plotters" and threatening to confiscate cell phones and equipment.
You cannot demolish homes, confiscate land and resources and build illegal Israeli settlements in their place without provoking resistance.
Federal agents can confiscate a gun if it turns out someone should not have been allowed to buy it.
He gave Union commanders the authority to confiscate or destroy civilian property, including food, animals, cotton, buildings and personal property.
CTU said it had given the network operators one month to comply or it could begin proceedings to confiscate frequencies.
They asked me to wait, then came back about 45-minutes later and said they had to confiscate the medicine.
It states that the government can take control of, seize, or confiscate drones that are perceived to be a threat.
In Denmark, the government is even moving to confiscate valuables from arriving migrants to defray the cost of accommodating them.
The other measure allows the state to confiscate the guns of any abuser cited in a domestic-violence protection order.
So taken was George by the arguments for land taxation that he thought the state should confiscate all land rents.
In 2014, after federal officials tried to confiscate Mr. Bundy's cattle, professed militiamen flocked to his ranch in Bunkerville, Nev.
But it also gives French security services and police the right to conduct house searches, confiscate weapons and increase surveillance.
Juan added that he and his bosses will sometimes confiscate and turn off the phones of migrants ahead of time.
They raid illegal logging camps, levy large fines that are rarely collected and confiscate chainsaws to temporarily impede the cutting.
Any heavy-handedness on behalf of his government to stop leaflet printing or confiscate ballot boxes could trigger social unrest.
Barber wrote "arrest, convict, hang and confiscate all assets" in a third post alluding to the Obamas, according to CNN.
TV's "Rising" that a Democratic president would possibly declare a national emergency on gun violence in order to confiscate firearms.
He said police officers at checkpoints on the road to Toliara should confiscate contraband charcoal being transported by unlicensed producers.
Stanford said she was told to either remove the sign, allow police to confiscate it or refuse and be arrested.
In Umm al-Kheir the Israeli Army dispatches a platoon to confiscate a portable toilet and demolish a bread oven.
Update #4: 14:50 CETBomb Squad in the bulding: Police want to confiscate our phones and stuff for pics maybe?
Red flag laws allow judges to temporarily confiscate a person's firearms if they're considered a danger to themselves or others.
They would take locked boxes filled with writings, confiscate drawers filled with papers and other files, and take suspects' books.
Using myth-based fear-mongering and race-baiting, NRA leadership perpetuated the myth that Obama was planning to confiscate guns.
About five masked Hamas officers tried to confiscate her phone and beat her with batons, breaking her arm, she said.
It allows authorities to impound cars for at least seven days and confiscate driving licenses for up to 30 days.
Officials can also retain devices and potentially confiscate them from travelers who refuse to allow a search at the border.
President Obama accused critics of his gun-control agenda of furthering a "conspiracy" that he wants to confiscate Americans' firearms.
What Moore didn't address is how to confiscate the more than 300 million lawfully owned, semi-automatic firearms in America.
Clinton's allies had started telling their delegates on the floor to try to confiscate Sanders signs if they saw them.
It calls for "risk protection orders" to confiscate weapons from those deemed a threat and has a proposal to arm teachers.
I think if I were to get married again I would totally do the take the phone and confiscate it thing.
"Red flag" bills make it easier for police to confiscate weapons from someone found to pose a threat of violent behavior.
So the law was supposed to confiscate profits if insurers priced too high, and pay compensation if they priced too low.
And he made unsubstantiated claims that Clinton is looking to confiscate all Americans' guns and wants to let loose Islamic terrorists.
A U.S. Team source tells PEOPLE that police went to the Olympic village early Wednesday morning to confiscate the swimmers' passports.
When officers approached his house to confiscate his rifles, he opened fire from the upper floor, injuring several and killing one.
Although cameras and phones were ostensibly not allowed, the company conducting the survey neglected to confiscate them, according to the Redditor.
The FTC's charges and settlement terms confiscate Herbalife's tools of deception – illegal tools, according to the FTC – to generate future revenue.
The popularity of Azerbaijani apples in Armenia is causing the Armenian government to set up barricades to confiscate the illicit fruit.
Mr. Lennox has said the case was fabricated to allow a Chinese state-owned company to confiscate Mr. Ng's travel business.
Friday, the Turkish law enforcement agency decided to confiscate property that belongs to Zarrab and his relatives, the news agency said.
New York cops also have a new mandate to confiscate knives, razors, box cutters, and other edged weapons from subway riders.
I was an artist, and I had a sketchbook with nude sketches in it, and they were going to confiscate it.
Beto O'Rourke promised during Thursday night's debate to confiscate assault rifles, arguing that they are too dangerous for Americans to own.
He'll just confiscate their wealth and redistribute it to the less fortunate so we can all be poor and miserable together.
In a first, a judge declined a motion to confiscate a man's guns under Colorado's "red flag" law, according to CBS4.
"The main objective of these students is to ban firearms completely, and confiscate the firearms of law-abiding Americans," Brown said.
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If you meet a policeman he may demand bribes or confiscate goods, says Mariam Babu, who chairs an association of women traders.
At his request, guards at the neighbouring garrison search tribesmen returning from town and confiscate booze, which he bans in the village.
At a conference in December the party adopted a policy of changing the constitution to allow it to confiscate land without compensation.
Influential conservatives during the Obama era falsely convinced millions of gun owners that he would dispatch federal agents to confiscate their weapons.
However, Mifsud rejected a prosecution request to confiscate the boat, saying it belonged to the German charity Mission Lifeline rather than Reisch.
After the annexation, the units provided the shock troops used to confiscate property and suppress critics of the annexation, including the Tatars.
That same evening, an order from Beijing arrived at the Xinhua office in Shenzhen to confiscate Mr. Xu's passport, Mr. Kam said.
One thing is crystal clear: A partner for peace does not confiscate another's land and then build their own homes upon it.
Authorities are allowed to confiscate products that contain dangerous substances, contain adulterated materials, and are falsely labeled under Malaysia's Food Act 1983.
Additionally, the bill would allow the police to temporarily confiscate guns from anyone subject to involuntary psychiatric evaluation under Florida's Baker Act.
If I slipped and drew any of these things, I wasn't allowed to cover it up; they'd have to confiscate the drawing.
But as a sign of what was to come, Harun remembers the authorities at that time trying to confiscate his citizenship document.
"He wants to send armed men to our house with the intent to confiscate, arrest and possibly even kill us," he said.
And some of those states merely allow — but do not require — the police to seek a court order to confiscate such guns.
Had the law been place before the Isla Vista shooting, the shooter's mother could have filed a petition to confiscate his guns.
One of its key objectives is to empower the central government to confiscate and appropriate properties acquired by money launderers with "dirty money".
The Spanish government sent masked riot police to raid polling sites and confiscate ballot boxes and later called for a new "legitimate" election.
His United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) had powers to inspect any building, to confiscate documents and to seize and destroy weapons and equipment.
" "With 350 million guns in 65 million places, households ... if the federal government wanted to confiscate those objects, how would they do that?
What they would do when they'd dissolve these groups, part of the SD would usually confiscate all of the material from the groups.
Rhode Island's red-flag law will allow to petition the courts for permission to confiscate firearms from individuals determined to pose imminent risks.
Andrew Cuomo (D) as he signed into law a bill that will give authorities increased ability to confiscate guns from individuals deemed dangerous.
" The article yo-yos back and forth for the following 14 paragraphs, which describe trying to "confiscate" weapons and support for "mandatory buybacks.
"I'd like to emphasize that police didn't have the authority to confiscate her phone," Surachate Hakparn, Thailand's chief of immigration police, told reporters.
Instead, they were instructed to arrest looters and confiscate materials recovered from synagogues and Jewish community centers, according to the US Holocaust Museum.
If someone is a threat to themselves or others, it gives law enforcement and the judicial system the ability to confiscate the weapons.
Did your landlord find your grill on the fire escape and confiscate it, your only way to cook without melting in your apartment?
While this is true, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol allows only one liter per person and will confiscate anything over that amount.
The council said the law to dismantle former Mr. al-Bashir's National Congress Party would also confiscate all the party's assets and funds.
You can tell him that not every incremental tightening of standards is a slippery slope, that no one wants to confiscate his guns.
A couple of states have passed laws dramatically restricting police's ability to confiscate property before the owner is actually convicted of a crime.
Gun rights groups argue that once the government has a list of firearms, it could use that list to confiscate weapons from private citizens.
She also declares that she's going to confiscate all of the guns in the town (yes, Helena doesn't want to give up her gun).
At Southwark Crown Court, judge Joanna Korner ruled that the state could confiscate 922,978.14 pounds ($1.13 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from Grant West, 27.
Lavrov said the sanctions amounted to an attempt by the United States to confiscate Venezuelan state assets, Russian news agencies quoted him as saying.
Denmark's parliament approved a controversial bill on Tuesday that allows police to confiscate valuables from refugees who are seeking asylum in the Scandinavian country.
That's not the same thing as suggesting that an overarching government has the power to confiscate wealth from some and give it to others.
It was also one of nine states to introduce "red flag" laws that allow police to confiscate guns from any person considered a threat.
Following an executive order, or ordinance, issued by the cabinet, investigating agencies will be able to confiscate the properties of fugitives in such cases.
The dispute grew into an armed conflict in the Nevada desert after federal officials began to confiscate Bundy's cattle because of the unpaid fees.
The Guardian reports that police were present for the flight, but no arrests were made and there was no attempt to confiscate the drugs.
These fellows, all veterans, are apocalypse-minded, bristling at a "tyranny" that they believe will soon be coming to confiscate their many, many guns.
In 1968, a group of congressmen drafted legislation to confiscate the house to make room for a driveway for a new Senate office building.
"There are fewer people and business activities to tax; the same applies to properties and land to confiscate," said IHS senior analyst Columb Strack.
A measure passed in January, though rarely enforced, empowers the authorities to confiscate valuables from new arrivals to offset the cost of settling them.
"If a passport is reported as lost or stolen by a foreign government we have no choice but to confiscate it," the spokesman said.
Though Mizuko is clearly addicted to her cell phone, she allows Alice to confiscate it on the grounds of preventing her from texting Rupert.
Traffickers confiscate their passports and documents, leaving them powerless in a country where they have no support network and often don't speak the language.
According to the Post, agents used a search warrant to confiscate a number of documents and other records, though their specific contents are unclear.
She said his workers would confiscate her phone before bringing her to Chapo, and they blindfolded her on the way to his safe houses.
Instead, a Dresden court ruled that they couldn't have any booze, and the cops showed up every day to confiscate all of their beer.
The creditors could pursue legal action to confiscate Venezuelan assets abroad, such as oil tankers or even refineries owned by the Pdvsa subsidiary Citgo.
The NSC may also confiscate Bolton's hard drive if that were the case, although a person close to Bolton said that has not happened.
The conservative writer Erick Erickson tweeted, "It is not a stretch to say there'd be violence if the gov't tried to confiscate" AR-15s.
In Vermont, the House passed a bill last month to allow the police to confiscate temporarily the firearms of people accused of domestic abuse.
With tension between the communities rising, authorities have clamped down, cutting the internet in the camps and trying to confiscate phones, citing security concerns.
The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
But one night, he went to a bar in his hometown, and the bouncer threatened to confiscate his license over the birth date listed.
That bill, which passed with strong support last Tuesday, also allows the immigration authorities to confiscate jewelry and other valuable items worth $1,450 or more.
A herder was shot dead when police tried to confiscate his cattle after they invaded one of the ranches last week, police and ranchers said.
In 2016, Washington state enacted an "extreme risk" gun law that has allowed Seattle police officers to confiscate 43 weapons from citizens, the Times reported .
FDA put out an import alert on kratom in 2014, allowing its agents to confiscate and destroy shipments of the substance discovered on US soil.
Soon after, he called a referendum on a constitutional change to bolster his power as president and enable him to confiscate land without paying compensation.
It allows officials to confiscate cash, jewellery and other valuables from asylum-seekers, supposedly to pay for the cost of their upkeep in asylum centres.
In Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, radicals employ intimidation tactics like raiding mini-marts to confiscate what they call "unregulated" contraceptives.
"Red flag" laws would allow the police to temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others.
Officials from the Interior Ministry came to the home of Madeha Alajroush, a photographer, to confiscate and destroy all her negatives — 15 years of work.
The officials could declare the women's travel and trading illegal on a whim, confiscate their goods and even send them to prison, the report said.
It posts photos of confiscated contraband (agents confiscate about 70 firearms in carry-on bags each week) interspersed with images of dogs that detect explosives.
But O'Rourke also risks playing into GOP dogma that all gun control is a ruse for Democrats to confiscate the guns of law abiding Americans.
Beyond the thorny politics of this proposal, it raises clear legal and logistical questions, including whether a president has the authority to confiscate people's guns.
If creditors try to confiscate tankers of oil, Venezuela will ensure that, contractually, that oil is the property of the buyer before it leaves Venezuela.
Unlike Illinois, most states do not have an explicit process allowing the police a way to confiscate guns from people suspected of being prohibited owners.
Meanwhile, Hitler assigned Count Franziskuz Wolff-Metternich (Benjamin Utzerath) to micromanage and eventually confiscate the art in the Louvre as part of the Kunstschutz effort.
Last week, he also withdrew his works from two Danish museums to protest against the country's new law that allows authorities to confiscate valuables from migrants.
Two of those arrested were charged with felonious assault on an officer after officers tried to confiscate the flag, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters.
In 22019, conservative groups and protestors attempted to have the Reno gay rodeo shut down by getting the IRS to confiscate the group's books and proceeds.
The British authorities aim to confiscate them and return them to the Nigerian state, but if Ibori's conviction were overturned he would regain control of them.
If the species is banned, the officer could confiscate the amphibian; smugglers could be slapped with up to $228,000 in fines and six months in prison.
One of the bills would mandate universal background checks for firearm purchases, while another would allow police to confiscate guns from individuals determined to be dangerous.
In 2017 alone, Australian authorities initiated a renewed push to confiscate "grey market" weapons, meaning those that households had kept in defiance of the 1996 ban.
In that case, federal prosecutors accuse Mr. Bundy of participating in a "massive armed assault" on federal officials after the authorities tried to confiscate his cattle.
Meanwhile, Assad's regime has used chemical weapons on its own people and planned to confiscate the property of those forced to flee, seemingly without perturbing Putin.
Armed with teargas and metal rods, the French riot police (CRS) spray the sleeping migrants on a nightly basis and confiscate sleeping bags, blankets and belongings.
" He recounts how Abraham Lincoln "asserted the right of the president to move people, restrict freedoms, confiscate property, and wage war in defense of the Union.
Two months later, when our tour is up, I worry that some customs officer at the airport might confiscate the uniform, declaring it a sanitary hazard.
Sánchez says the special measure allows the government to limit free movement, legally confiscate goods and take control of industries and private facilities, including private hospitals.
Police officers showed up at the apartment two days later to confiscate his laptop, passport and credit cards, and a change of clothes, his family said.
She is suicidal, and her family in Colombo, where she stays in the months after the tsunami, hide all the knives and confiscate her sleeping pills.
Municipal inspectors tried to confiscate his crates of fruit and his electronic scale, and when he resisted a policewoman slapped him in front of a crowd.
F.Y.I. Q. I'm a frequent traveler, and I've noticed that airport security agents seem to confiscate a lot of food, liquor and other items at checkpoints.
Chinese authorities will prosecute all suspects in a safety scandal at vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology and confiscate its illegal earnings, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.
He spoke with passion about that experience Thursday night and did not shy away from a moderator's question about whether he would confiscate assault-style weapons.
He said the agent informed him that if he was revoking his consent for them to search his device then they would have to confiscate it.
It nods to a debate over the sometimes unhealthy practice of skin bleaching that in Rwanda has led to raids on pharmacies to confiscate dangerous cosmetics.
A judge then holds a hearing and decides whether to confiscate their weapons for a year, after which police agencies are able to renew the request.
Mr. Jones amplified conspiracy theories claiming that the relatives of victims were actors involved in an elaborate ruse meant to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens.
It's an order to the customs agents to confiscate incoming goods that infringe our patent, whether they say "PopSockets" or not, so that includes all the fakes.
As the Times notes, it's unclear whether Saudi Arabia's newly established corruption committee might seek to confiscate any of Prince Alwaleed's assets, estimated to be $32 billion.
Residents of Morelos have accused the state governor of trying to confiscate private donations, either to hoard them or relabel them as aid from a state agency.
Eleven of those checkpoints are located inland in California, and at those spots agents continue to confiscate small amounts of pot from the people who pass through.
In December, Qatar passed a new law which allows workers who have completed contracts to change jobs freely and imposes fines of businesses who confiscate employees' passports.
ALMATY (Reuters) - Authorities in Tajikistan have threatened to confiscate the property of people linked to opposition activists living in exile, a leading opposition politician said on Friday.
Can someone please go confiscate that imaginary Noble Peace Prize that President Trump won and immediately halt the production of the the North Korea Summit Commemorative Coins?
They ask the Department of Homeland Security to raid independent repair shops to confiscate "counterfeit" parts (many of which are not proprietary) that are imported from China.
Police under Qaddafi would stop bikers who rode together, and often confiscate the bikes, said Salah al-Morjini, 28, a founding member of the Sons of Sahara.
They picked the lock and armed government agents barged in with a search warrant to confiscate documents that had already been voluntarily turned over to congressional committees.
In an order to police issued on Monday, the prosecutor's office said they would take the names of anyone participating in the vote and confiscate relevant documents.
Republicans have instead pushed for a "red-flag" bill that would allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed to be dangerous by a judge.
While most of these propositions have fizzled out, red flag laws—those allowing police to pre-emptively confiscate a person's firearms—have exhibited the most staying power.
Judge Mubiru ordered the 33 accused to reappear in a lower court on August 30, but also rejected a request from the prosecutor to confiscate their passports.
That's good — but the Australian experience suggests the fact that DC merely made existing handgun owners re-register, rather than confiscate their weapons, limited the ban's effectiveness.
"What we know is that the Chinese authorities have tightened controls on Tibetans, in some areas going from house to house to confiscate people's passports," she said.
When migrants are apprehended, Daniel Hernandez, a Border Patrol spokesman, said agents confiscate items migrants carry with them, much like when a person is admitted to jail.
But the goal was the same, to purge the country of people of an ethnicity considered foreign: drive them out, confiscate their assets and take their land.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke did not hesitate during Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate when asked whether he would confiscate assault-style weapons from Americans.
In 2013, a first attempt was made in Britain to confiscate his assets, but it was aborted after three weeks of hearings because of unresolved legal disputes.
Restarting the process at Southwark on Thursday, prosecution counsel Jonathan Kinnear began listing assets that Britain seeks to confiscate from Ibori and return to Nigerian public funds.
According to tribal law, single women, widows, divorcées and those without sons could not inherit the land, which meant that the state could confiscate it without compensation.
In exchange, Karimova said she would stop legally contesting the Tashkent government's efforts to confiscate from her $686 million in assets already frozen by authorities in Switzerland.
The Xiantao authorities tried to confiscate their gear at a checkpoint as they were leaving, according to one volunteer, and they were kicked out of the city.
The law empowers Mr. Salvini to deny aid ships entry into Italian waters, confiscate boats and impose a million euro fine on ship captains who disobeyed him.
Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) after the Democratic presidential hopeful said during Thursday night's Democratic debate that he would confiscate the weapons if he wins the White House.
The prosecutor said that investigators aimed to confiscate documents, while Volkswagen said that it was fully cooperating with the authorities, although it viewed the investigation as unfounded.
However, if bandits became stationary (like the Saviors) they could subjugate groups, offering protection from other bandits and themselves, and repeatedly confiscate a portion of their production.
The law empowers Mr. Salvini to deny aid ships entry into Italian waters, confiscate boats and impose a million euro fine on ship captains who disobeyed him.
Under the guidance of public prosecutors and Spanish judges, the police conducted raids across Catalonia to confiscate ballots and campaign materials from printing shops and delivery companies.
By 2014, when the authorities began to confiscate his livestock over more than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees, hundreds of armed supporters rallied to his side.
Alex Jones believes a lot of things — like, as Spin's Andy Cush documents, the notion that Justin Bieber is part of an evil plot to confiscate your guns.
Human Rights Watch says a 2018 property law, known as Law 10, empowers authorities to confiscate property without compensating the owners or giving them an opportunity to appeal.
The alleged attack stemmed from a dispute that began when the teacher tried to confiscate Williams' daughter's cell phone, and a physical confrontation allegedly ensued, the complaint says.
They will also allow workers who have completed contracts to change jobs freely and imposes fines of up to 25,000 riyal ($6,865.87) on businesses who confiscate employees' passports.
"Understand that when you're traveling, the government may potentially hold you for hours, and they may potentially confiscate your devices," says Hassan Shibly, director of CAIR's Florida branch.
Younger kids find it irresistible: My preschooler gleefully shrieked, "Mommy, I love you!" every few minutes while I worked—until I texted my husband to confiscate the Relay.
The DEA, which falls under the Justice Department, could be freed up to raid state-legal marijuana farms and shops, confiscate these businesses' product, and shut them down.
UBS had already deposited in a Milan court's bank account 10 million euros that the judge is expected to confiscate as profit of alleged money-laundering, they added.
In his statement, Clough said the tax issue had been resolved and a court decision to confiscate the newspaper's assets has been canceled until an appeal is finished.
However, even if there had been "alarm bells," it isn't a simple process to confiscate firearms in Texas due to a legal loophole known as the relinquishment gap.
Last year, Washington state enacted an "extreme risk" gun law that allows local police to confiscate weapons from citizens believed to pose a danger to themselves or others.
She was prosecuted for assisting in the management of a brothel and police tried to confiscate £8,000 in cash, which she had earned through her personal sex work.
The White House is weighing a plan to use "red flag laws" to confiscate guns from people deemed too dangerous to possess them, according to a Bloomberg report.
The ministry said it is "not correct" that cow vigilantism has risen on Modi's watch and "preposterous" to conclude that Hindus are organizing to confiscate and redistribute cattle.
Its hosts spoke chillingly of leftist plots to confiscate weapons, media conspiracies to brainwash Americans into supporting gun control and a "deep state" campaign to undermine President Trump.
This difference explains why a conservative prime minister was able to confiscate some 650,000 privately owned firearms and ban semiautomatic weapons without a single reported act of violence.
Officers might arrive on the scene, have the person undergo a mental health evaluation at a hospital and confiscate the person's gun at the time of the incident.
In states where the legal age for gun ownership is raised to 21, authorities in some jurisdictions could refuse to confiscate guns from 18- to 333-year-olds.
Since then, North Korea has occasionally threatened to confiscate and liquidate the shuttered South Korean properties at Diamond Mountain, whose value has been estimated at about $400 million​.
The Indian government's Enforcement Directorate, which fights financial crimes, is seeking to declare him a "fugitive economic offender" and to confiscate 125 billion rupees worth of his assets.
A year ago, the agency and police were deployed to locate and confiscate unregistered lambanog that was being openly sold to the public, and threatened to prosecute sellers.
As a result, the most economically advanced Western nations run unsustainable deficits that, without formal constraints on the power of government to confiscate its citizens' production, will continue.
"If the police saw me they would confiscate my goods," said Sow, who lives with his girlfriend and seven-month-old daughter in the nearby city of Gandia.
Last week, his government said it was demanding millions of rupees from more than 200 people, threatening to confiscate their property to pay for damage during the protests.
A year ago, the FDA and police were deployed to locate and confiscate unregistered lambanog that was being openly sold to the public, and threatened to prosecute sellers.
" Instead, she conjured images of nature's majesty and her Christian religious passion as poetic proof to her captors that, as she once said, "they can't confiscate your brain.
At the heart of the debate about President Obama's planned executive actions on firearms was one question: Will the government ultimately want to confiscate weapons from responsible gun owners?
Immigration officials in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands also confiscate and analyze mobile phones to determine the identity of asylum seekers without documentation, The Guardian reported last year.
But as Reed made it to the 18th hole, his wife reportedly asked police to confiscate the family's badges and remove the family from the event, according to Golf.
According to English-language Japanese news site SoraNews24, the panel discussed why the United States government didn't just confiscate its citizens' guns, and Harlan attempted to answer that question.
The senator told CNN that the hearing will likely focus on "red flag" laws, which give authorities increased ability to confiscate guns from individuals deemed dangerous by a court.
Yet, the DNC reportedly refused to allow the FBI to examine its servers and data in a timely fashion and — for reasons unexplained — the FBI failed to confiscate them.
Troops were taken by surprise and abandoned their position, allowing the militants to confiscate 10 armored vehicles before retreating to their stronghold in neighboring Nigeria, the security sources said.
Mr. Arrmanatha said the Chinese Coast Guard might have acted as it did on Saturday because it did not want the Indonesian authorities to confiscate and destroy the vessel.
They confiscate nearly everything he has on him, from his belt to his shoelaces, although, as luck would have it, they do not touch or even see his phone.
Gun sales soared after Obama's election in 2008 and again when he was reelected in 2012, as people worried that the president would begin to confiscate the nation's firearms.
"The strategy helped police to confiscate dozens of weapons, including a slew of sticks, wooden dowels and poles," the Berkeley Police Department said in a statement after the event.
The presence of foreign investment has increased pressure on the Ethiopian government to stabilize the region, which has led to the ongoing military initiative to confiscate all tribal firearms.
Trump hammered the former congressman over his recent proposals to confiscate certain types of firearms and suggestion that churches lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose gay marriage.
The groups charge that Pompeo violated the Federal Records Act by allowing Trump to reportedly confiscate meeting notes prepared by State Department employees and for failing to preserve them.
The law includes provisions on national security, which some firms worry could be used as cover to shut international businesses out of certain projects or to confiscate investments altogether.
The court turned down a police request to confiscate Uber Finland's assets, but ordered up to 246,000 euros ($279,357) of its country manager Joel Jarvinen's personal assets be frozen.
In December, Trump's Labor Department Secretary Alex Acosta proposed a plan that would essentially allow employers to confiscate their workers' tips if they pay workers minimum wage or above.
It's with the Department of Justice, which could confiscate Lichtman's paycheck as part of the $14 billion in asset forfeiture it's seeking to collect from his would-be client.
FINMA is not authorized to levy fines, but may confiscate unlawfully realized gains, impose professional limitations on bankers or require an organization to make changes to prevent similar breaches recurring.
A law passed in 1276 authorized the King's Ombudsmen to confiscate money on gambling tables and charge each player a fine of half a mark, or 107 grams of silver.
Last month, López Obrador told the crowd at a bankers convention in Acapulco, Guerrero State, that his government would not confiscate goods, a widespread fear in financial circles in Mexico.
I confiscate the keys to Firth's ancient VW Gol and sedately transport us through the city's deserted one-way streets, back to his home-slash-warehouse in Luján de Cuyo.
He reiterated his support for "red flag" laws that allow law enforcement to get court orders to confiscate weapons from dangerous individuals, but otherwise did not propose other gun legislation.
New Jersey just passed a "Red Flag" bill that will allow local authorities to temporarily confiscate guns from people who are considered to be a risk to society or themselves.
In recent years, some states have passed laws allowing extreme risk protection orders, which let law enforcement confiscate guns from people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
" Biden was clear that he would not seek to confiscate privately owned or purchased guns, instead advocating for "a national buyback program" intended to get the weapons "off the street.
Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) for vowing to confiscate AR-15 rifles in last week's Democratic debate, which moderate Democrats have expressed concerns may be used as an attack for Republicans.
Britain has had success cracking down on the problem by banning travel for known troublemakers - nearly 2,000 people are currently banned - and giving police the power to confiscate their passports.
Other proposals under consideration include so-called red-flag legislation, which would allow courts to temporarily confiscate weapons from individuals considered dangerous, and a bill sponsored by Toomey and Sen.
But when the police make arrests, they routinely confiscate cellphones, where rarely memorized contact numbers are stored, leaving those who are arrested without a way to reach out for help.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers out to confiscate documents from "a money-changer who deals with terror funds" attempted to open safes using a controlled explosion and a fire erupted.
But when inspectors arrived to confiscate the restaurant's plastic carry bags, "the head of the local traders association showed up with other members and they started behaving violently", Altaf Shah said.
One of the greatest challenges in any democracy is to prevent it from descending into open class warfare, with the proverbial 51 percent seeking to confiscate wealth from their fellow citizens.
A video posted to YouTube shows Sergey Boyko operating the drone as police try to enter his apartment in the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, to confiscate his electronics around 10 a.m.
LACK OF ENFORCEMENT: AURORA, ILLINOIS, WORKPLACEWhen Aurora, Illinois, shooter Gary Martin failed a background check and was told to turn over his weapon, he never did and police didn't confiscate it.
"Biden then clarified that he doesn't have the intention to confiscate previously-owned assault weapons, however, he does plan on establishing a national buyback program to "get them off the street.
Walmart had argued that the new tax would confiscate more than 100 percent of its profit from operations in Puerto Rico, making it one of the most onerous taxes on earth.
Trump is urging states to enact laws that would allow them to confiscate weapons from legal gun owners who pose a risk to themselves or others until a court has intervened.
A state of emergency also allows the central government to legally confiscate goods and take over control of industries and private facilities, including private hospitals to boost the robust public system.
The men were detained before the story published in February, suggesting that the government arrested them in an attempt to confiscate the photos and prevent the report from publishing, Adler said.
Cruz said the entire debate had been poisoned by Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's pronouncement at the last debate that if he were president he would want to confiscate weapons. Sen.
The Kremlin on Tuesday condemned the U.S. sanctions as illegal interference in Venezuela's affairs, while Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said they looked like an attempt to confiscate Venezuelan state assets.
Of Democratic candidates touting more moderate gun-law plans, "gun owners will be thinking, we just don't believe you, we don't believe that you don't want to confiscate our guns," he says.
Conspiracy theorists now traffic in the idea that 9/11 was an inside job and that gun massacres like Sandy Hook are "false flags" cooked up so the government can confiscate guns.
"This is a basic permitting scheme to allow the professional staff at SFMTA to permit these with sensible, regulatory frameworks and to be able to confiscate unpermitted vehicles or devices," Peskin said.
A three-member bench of the special court hearing the cases passed orders to freeze his bank accounts and confiscate his property after Musharraf failed to appear for a hearing, media reported.
In December, Qatar passed a new law which allows the country's 1.6 million foreign workers who have completed contracts to change jobs freely and imposes fines of businesses who confiscate employees' passports.
Adisorn Nuchdamrong, deputy director-general of the Department of National Parks, said his team was able to confiscate the tigers thanks to a warrant obtained a few hours before the operation began.
He ranted to the grieving audience that President Trump's language perpetuates mass violence, and he pressed for more gun control measures, including red flag laws that confiscate guns from at-risk individuals.
In states where the legal age for ownership is raised to 21, authorities in some jurisdictions could refuse to confiscate guns from 18-, 19- and 85033-year-olds, according to the report.
Still, his position was popular with Democratic voters, and gave him a stand-out moment in the September presidential debate, when he was pressed on whether he would really confiscate Americans' firearms.
He is also known to have a hair-trigger temper — which was on four-letter display last week when a construction worker in Michigan accused him of trying to confiscate his guns.
In Tallinn I had visited its K.G.B. Museum, located in a skyscraper hotel used to spy on foreigners, and found the guide's jokes about how she wouldn't confiscate my photos pretty funny.
Mr. Perrotta later instructed Kevin Chmielewski, a Trump administration political appointee who had served as Mr. Pruitt's deputy chief of staff, to confiscate Mr. Martin's gun and badge, according to agency officials.
Even though he wasn't suspected of breaking any laws and wasn't actually under arrest, he could either choose to unlock his phone and laptop for border agents or they would confiscate them.
He has gotten people's attention again, including from the president, who tweeted that Mr. O'Rourke's vow to confiscate some assault weapons had "made it much harder to make a deal" on guns.
Woeser, a Tibetan writer in Beijing who is critical of the Communist Party, wrote in a blog post that, according to the Chinese Constitution, it is illegal for officials to confiscate passports.
But on Monday, after what looked like a sustained Kremlin-backed campaign, a court sentenced him to 300 hours of compulsory community service and ordered the state to confiscate his expensive vehicle.
Chief among those: The Geneva Conventions bar an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territory, and an occupying power may not confiscate privately owned land for its own purposes.
The authorities say they are investigating how Mr. Martin slipped through the cracks of the Illinois law, which the police might have been able to use to confiscate his handgun years ago.
Also known as extreme risk protection orders, the laws give courts the ability to temporarily confiscate firearms from individuals believed to be at risk of doing harm to themselves or someone else.
The two anonymous family members also tried to confiscate his firearms, with Clark giving them boxes of gun parts he did not legally own, which are used to modify AR-15 assault rifles.
Neither plan, for example, addressed the ongoing complaint that the police harass people for sleeping on the streets — a policy that advocates for the homeless refer to as criminalization — and confiscate their property.
That would include seizures by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), which can confiscate ill-gotten gains but not mete out criminal sanctions on companies it regulates, including the country's biggest banks.
Islamic State militants "interrogate and harass people leaving the city and confiscate their documents", while the Syrian government "requires those wishing to leave by land or air to obtain authorisation", the report said.
Islamic State militants "interrogate and harass people leaving the city and confiscate their documents", while the Syrian government "requires those wishing to leave by land or air to obtain authorization", the report said.
Leveraging federal law, the Drug Enforcement Administration, which falls under the Justice Department, could be freed up to raid state-legal marijuana farms and shops, confiscate these businesses' product, and shut them down.
Lawmakers are focusing on bills with widespread approval in public polling, including background checks, "red flag" bills that allow judges to confiscate guns from dangerous people and bans on domestic abusers owning guns.
In an enforcement action nearly two years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sent armed rangers to Bundy's ranch about 80 miles (129 km) northeast of Las Vegas to confiscate his cattle.
Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, who had the unenviable task of arguing for Indiana's right to confiscate Land Rovers on Wednesday, only managed to utter two sentences before Justice Neil Gorsuch interrupted him.
This year, federal investigators presented a court order to the Israel Police and the Israeli Ministry of Justice to confiscate computers in Psy-Group's former offices in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv.
Jason Warf, executive director for the Southern Colorado Cannabis Council, suggested the Colorado Springs meeting was about how local authorities can use federal drug laws to confiscate cash and property from marijuana dealers.
But he was a big proponent of gun regulation — suppose, just for the sake of comparison, he told Congress he wanted billions of dollars to confiscate all the automatic weapons in the country.
The standard rules for liquid carry-ons don't apply to medications in liquid or gel form, but you need to inform the T.S.A. when you pass through security so they don't confiscate it.
QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians have launched protests in the occupied West Bank after Israeli bulldozers began clearing land in what villagers fear is an attempt to confiscate it for future Jewish settlements.
Although the pardons prevent her from bringing charges against any of the 56 officials, Janeva said she would keep investigating whether wealth had been taken illegally and, if so, seek to confiscate it.
The controversy over the use of assault rifles has entered the 2020 presidential race, with candidate and former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke declaring at a Democratic debate that he would confiscate such rifles.
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on so-called "red flag" legislation that would provide grants to states to empower law enforcement to confiscate firearms from individuals judged to be dangerous to themselves or others.
Ten families are pursuing lawsuits against Mr. Jones over his role in spreading bogus claims about the shooting, including that the victims' families were actors in a plot to confiscate firearms from Americans.
California was also the first state to allow family members, in addition to law enforcement, to petition a court to confiscate guns from someone believed to be a danger to themselves or others.
Before they can cross to safety, the colonel returns to confiscate their visas and impound the car, informing them through his translator that they are all under arrest as accomplices to Dad's capital crimes.
MBS's anti-corruption committee, which he formed just hours before the arrests began on November 22016, has pledged to take "whatever measures are deemed necessary" to confiscate the assets of corrupt officials and businessmen.
Many recruited religious police forces, called the Hisbah, to confiscate alcohol and arrest adulterers (who are occasionally sentenced to death by stoning, but are never actually stoned) to ensure that citizens did not sin.
Yesterday at the National District Attorneys Association, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he will be issuing a directive making it easier for police across the nation to permanently confiscate a criminal suspect's property.
In an enforcement action just over two years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sent armed rangers to Bundy's ranch about 80 miles (129 km) northeast of Las Vegas to confiscate his cattle.
"Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge ... would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property," the National Rifle Association (NRA) said in a statement.
In 2014 porn performer Eden Alexander tried to use crowdfunding platform GiveForward to raise funds for medical expenses, only to have WePay, GiveForward's payment processor, confiscate her funds on the basis of her profession.
With Track & Trace, Juul is calling upon parents, teachers and law enforcement officials to come to the Juul Report web portal when they confiscate a device from a minor and input the serial number.
After one 2017 session with Putin in Hamburg, Trump even went so far as to confiscate notes taken by his interpreter and ban him from discussing details of the meeting with other administration officials.
And if it feels threatened, Hezbollah could be tempted to confiscate American planes and helicopters, Bradley advanced vehicles, and night vision goggles, paid for with American taxpayer dollars, and use them against against Israel.
Human rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia and its neighbors of denying workers' rights by allowing employers to confiscate foreign workers' passports and not allowing them to leave the country without their employer's permission.
BEIJING, Aug 16 (Reuters) - China's cabinet said police had concluded an investigation into Changsheng Biotechnology and would prosecute all suspects and confiscate the illegal earnings of the company, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.
Colorado has employed Safe2Tell, a tip line for reporting possible dangers, and passed laws that require background checks for all gun buyers and that permit the authorities to confiscate firearms from potentially dangerous people.
In 2015, the country sharply cut social programs for asylum seekers, and a law passed in 2016 allows the authorities to confiscate migrants' valuables to help cover the cost of their stays in Denmark.
The first, in 2004, was St. Petersburg, Russia, where I tried to photograph the exquisite architecture inside a subway station, only to be accosted by two police officers who wanted to confiscate my camera.
Perhaps most galling to Crimeans, the government is hauling thousands of residents into court to confiscate small land holdings distributed free as a campaign ploy in 22 when Ukraine controlled the Black Sea peninsula.
"My jaw dropped," said Paula Chavez, a teacher and union official at the prison whose son, a correctional officer, was beaten by inmates in May, she said, when he tried to confiscate a cellphone.
Previously, authorities in Washington State had sought to take away Mr. Cole's guns under a "red flag" law that allows a court to confiscate weapons from someone who is deemed to be a threat.
"Iraq's Governing Council voted yesterday to expel the leading Iranian opposition group and confiscate its assets, a surprise move that could alter the regional balance of power," reads a Washington Post article on Dec.
But when the photographer, Phil Sears, arrived from Florida and began to shoot Mr. Valeska in the hall during a break, the D.A. asked the sheriff to confiscate the camera and delete the picture.
The measures included the freezing of 338,000 bank accounts of inoperative companies in the last two financial years and an enactment of a law with a provision to confiscate the property of economic offenders.
Ms. Thiesmann, who has spent nearly a decade rescuing puppies from puppy mills, said what was particularly galling about the case was that the German authorities were usually not so quick to confiscate animals.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An international group that monitors money laundering said on Tuesday that Singapore should pursue more offenders involved in international cases and take more action to confiscate suspicious funds moving through the city-state.
Al-Qattan was referencing laws introduced last year that aimed to provide some protections for domestic help employees who work in the Persian Gulf region's notorious Kafala system, whereby employers routinely confiscate a worker's passport.
Police in Zurich and nearby Schaffhausen still confiscate cannabis when their officers find people using it, arguing it is impossible to discern whether its THC content falls within the legal limit without an expensive test.
Indian government's Enforcement Directorate, which fights financial crimes, also filed an application on the same day seeking to declare Mallya a "fugitive economic offender" and sought to confiscate 125 billion rupees worth of his assets.
A local government statement online also indicated that officials must inspect the homes they are staying for any religious elements or logos -- and instructed the officials to confiscate any such items found in the house.
One day, the family gets a visit from the sheriff who lets them know that if their father doesn't make his coming court date, the government will confiscate their home as part of his bond.
Trump and some Senate Republicans have backed "red flag" laws that would make it easier for law enforcement to obtain a court order to confiscate weapons from individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others.
And Russian President Vladimir Putin even suggested he might start a crusade with his country's national guard to confiscate guns from unauthorized Russian owners, a threat that reminded some of the old Soviet dissident roundups.
While Virginia must now allow gun owners from other states to carry in the commonwealth, state police will be instructed to confiscate firearms from people convicted of domestic abuse and will expand voluntary background checks.
Stories such as "Michelle Obama Vows to Confiscate All Firearms Before Leaving the White House" and "United Nations to Investigate Hillary Clinton for Election Fraud" are posted alongside pictures of Mr. Sabin searching for salamanders.
He heads a special anti-corruption committee created by a decree from his father hours before the arrests that has been granted the authority to detain any individual and confiscate any assets at its discretion.
If passed, the government would be able to seize control and confiscate a drone, including its payload, without prior consent to evaluate if it poses a security threat to areas that receive special government protection.
The panel will consider several bills that include a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines and "red flag" legislation that would encourage states to confiscate firearms from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.
Voters in California approved Proposition 63, mandating background checks for ammunition purchases, banning large-capacity magazines that can hold more than 10 cartridges and requiring law enforcement to confiscate the weapons of newly convicted felons.
He drew an outcry in some conservative circles after he suggested during the meeting that police should be empowered nationwide to confiscate guns from individuals deemed a danger to themselves or others, without due process.
The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok was once a tourist hotspot where visitors took photos with tigers and bottle-fed cubs until international pressure over wildlife trafficking prompted authorities to confiscate 147 tigers in 2016.
Kasich called for state laws that would address bump stocks and create gun violence protection orders, which would allow authorities to confiscate weapons from an individual who is deemed a danger to themselves or others.
Rounds said he's also hearing concern from constituents about the push for so-called red flag laws that would empower law enforcement to confiscate guns from people judged to be dangerous to themselves or others.
" Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, told Hugh Hewitt, the conservative radio host, that the proposal would confiscate cars and require Americans to "ride around on high-speed light rail, supposedly powered by unicorn tears.
Meanwhile, critics from both the left and right have taken aim at the 2005 landmark "eminent domain" decision that grants the government the authority to confiscate property from one private owner and give it to another.
In 2014, when the federal government announced it would confiscate his cattle, Mr. Bundy said publicly that he was "ready to do battle" with federal agents and would "do whatever it takes" to protect his livestock.
In the United Arab Emirates, for example, owning an endangered animal as a pet is illegal, yet authorities continue to confiscate hundreds of captive tigers, cheetahs, and lions, as a result of a thriving underground market.
Although Mr Obama has never made such a proposal, Mr Rubio claimed that he was convinced that if the current president could confiscate every gun in America and get rid of the Second Amendment, he would.
While other laws prohibit gun ownership for previously adjudicated crimes or mental health dispositions, red-flag gun laws can let authorities confiscate guns before a crime or suicide is attempted, when evidence shows danger is imminent.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas on Monday at students protesting against the shutdown of a prominent Athens university that authorities raided at the weekend to confiscate materials they said were typically used in violent demonstrations.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he will maintain fiscal discipline and seek friendly relations with the United States, while vowing not to confiscate property, after a landslide presidential election victory on Sunday.
In the more extreme case of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Information can censor any publication it wants, and the religious police can confiscate books if they detect what they perceive as a hint of blasphemy.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's government is proposing to make it harder for refugees to become citizens, confiscate asylum seekers' cash to pay for their upkeep and even seize their mobile phones to see where they came from.
The slender milk chocolate bars with hazelnut filling are wrapped to mimic Swiss Army knives; they come from Switzerland, of course, and security screeners should not confiscate them at the airport (unless the guard is hungry).
The first, Proposition Q, aimed to eliminate homeless people's unsightly tent camps by banning sidewalk tents and empowering the police to confiscate them with 24 hours notice so long as occupants were offered beds in shelters.
And last week a Genoa court issued a ruling to freeze and confiscate the funds of the League, a party led by Italy's most powerful politician, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, as part of a corruption investigation.
The schools need to make the punishment harsh by suspending the students they catch vaping, confiscate the vape, and make the students do something like community service or even clean the school just because they were vaping.
Some states, like California and Connecticut, allow police to confiscate guns from someone who is determined by a court to be a threat to a partner, even if a domestic violence restraining order is not in place.
Running in first place with some 28 percent of popular support, the Danish Social Democrats endorsed a "jewellery bill" which, passed in 2016, allows police to confiscate refugees' valuables to help pay their costs, among other measures.
The efforts by national law enforcement officers to confiscate machines have been undermined by the county council in Mombasa, which continue to issue "Machines & Games" licenses for $120, authorizing the slot machine use and defying central government.
The AFA must've seen the page around the same time, because shortly afterward, officials interrupted the course mid-session to confiscate the pages from each manual (which, mind you, bore the AFA seal of approval on it).
Now Republicans across the country are gleefully delivering on that promise, because they like power and want to keep it, and because it makes them feel big and tough to confiscate basic human rights from pregnant people.
A "red flag" law would allow authorities to confiscate a person's firearms for a temporary period of time if that person is accused of being a potential threat to themselves or others or is considered mentally unstable.
At first the agency demanded that several e-cigarette companies provide comprehensive plans to prevent teen vaping, fined over 1,85033 retailers for allegedly selling to minors, and raided e-cigarette company Juul's headquarters to confiscate internal documents.
A similar standoff played out in the Bavarian town of Georgensgmünd in October that year, when a 47-year-old shot dead a policeman who had come to confiscate his weapons after he had refused mandatory inspections.
Research on so-called red flag laws, which allow a judge to temporarily confiscate firearms from people found to be a risk to themselves or others, has found that they have been successful in reducing suicide deaths.
The Trump administration has taken steps to ban bump stocks, signed off on funding for improved background checks and encouraged states to pass laws that would allow authorities to more easily confiscate guns from individuals deemed dangerous.
There are federal and state laws designed to rein in the problem, but they are spotty and need to be strengthened, particularly in specifying what authority and obligation the police have to confiscate the guns of abusers.
Rubio hasn't ruled out voting for a version of Manchin-Toomey but he says legislation to empower police to confiscate firearms from individuals deemed to be dangerous would be a more effective way to prevent future tragedies.
The Turkish state news agency, however, was the first to report on Friday's court order to confiscate all of the assets of Mr. Zarrab and his family, including his wife, Ebru Gundes, a famous Turkish pop singer.
The country will also create a buyback scheme to confiscate the banned weapons, and the prime minister promised steps to ensure there isn't a rush to buy the prohibited guns before the new law fully takes effect.
If you weren't okay with that sort of false positive, you would either support waiting until after conviction to confiscate property or support automatic restitution for anyone whose charges are dropped or who is found not guilty.
Lawyers for Hayes argued that a judge's decision to include the whole value of the property when he calculated what proceeds to confiscate, following the former trader's conviction, did not take account of Tighe's contribution to the marriage.
The team listed off some of the downsides of their long-running gig: bad weather on long, exhausting drives; protesters who flip over tables and carts; police who threaten to confiscate their merchandise; general fatigue from the grind.
What truly galled, however, was the suggesting that Hofstra dongle police would confiscate and shut down anyone trying to run their own hotspot, an act that borders just on the edge of "patently unlawful" according to the FCC.
The only other objection to closing the loophole is that it allows people to hide their guns from the government -- suggesting that if the government knows you own guns, they will know where to come to confiscate them.
To truly enforce a ban on wildlife trade, you would need a lot of resources to confiscate animals from hunters leaving their wild habitat all the way up the chain to markets where consumers may buy the animals.
"They have asked us to confiscate the drawings and photographs, which we have done," said Claudio Riedi of the local prosecutors' office in the Swiss town of Chur where the museum holding the drawings and photos is located.
The conflict culminated in the spring of 2014, about a year before I visited the ranch, when the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) tried to confiscate 500 of Bundy's cows that had been grazing on government land.
KANCHANABURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Wildlife authorities in Thailand have raided a Buddhist temple where tigers are kept, taking away 40 of the animals by Tuesday and vowing to confiscate scores more in response to global pressure over wildlife trafficking.
Just as he promised his Party faithful to raise workers' salaries at the expense of senior bureaucrats, he promised the businessmen not to increase taxes on fuel, medicine, or electricity, and vowed that he would never confiscate property.
Yearly group efforts at bud-fueled baccanals like Hempfest and ragers at Oregon's Hippie Hill yield monstrous two- or three-pound behemoths that the crowd tries to suck down their lungs before the cops come and confiscate it.
In this instance, police said that they had no indication or suspicion that Aghdam planned to do something violent, and therefore there was nothing that would have triggered the process by which a court can confiscate someone's guns.
Its supporters included "conspiracy theorists, survival groups," Crowley wrote, "libertarians, veterans," and "the military," many of whom believe that the government has plans to impose martial law, confiscate guns, and hold dissidents prisoner in camps built by FEMA .
Gun control advocacy groups this year are prioritizing other bills -- particularly the "universal background check" legislation the House passed earlier this year and "red flag" laws to confiscate guns from owners who show signs of presenting a danger.
The unnamed woman who filed the request, who lives in the town of Limon, is one of four known people who have made filings to confiscate guns under the law, with others filing in Denver and Larimer County.
Allowing police to petition judges to seize guns This was another strong one, with 239% of those polled saying they're in favor of police petitioning a judge to confiscate weapons from someone deemed at risk for violent behavior.
And while the FDA has called for more research into kratom's benefits, the agency has routinely seized and destroyed imported kratom shipments it's managed to confiscate since at least 2014—often through incineration, according to FDA spokesperson Lindsay Meyers.
However, activists in China are clinging to one caveat: they say they can apprehend dog trucks en route to slaughterhouses legally, and can confiscate the animals if companies do not have paperwork explicitly proving they actually own the dogs.
That's why I've argued for tighter restrictions on all guns, including up to all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns, and a buyback program that would confiscate these guns out of circulation (much like Australia did).
Also at issue is whether or not use of force was excessive, as well as reports that the police tried to confiscate cell phone footage from witnesses when they should've just been securing the scene until the SIU arrived.
The prosecutors will discuss improving efforts to confiscate illegal gains from traffickers in a trade estimated to generate $150 billion (108 billion pounds) a year, and how to better protect victims and witnesses to secure evidence, the CPS said.
The law, which goes into effect in 180 days, allows family members, school officials or law enforcement officers to seek a court order to confiscate guns from an individual who is considered an "extreme risk" to themselves or others.
To guard against that, the new team, led by Jeffrey Lichtman — who previously represented ex–mob boss John Gotti Jr. — want the Justice Department to promise not to confiscate their paychecks, a request the judge was unwilling to grant.
BERLIN — A policeman has died of injuries suffered when a 49-year-old supporter of a fringe group that rejects modern Germany opened fire on officers sent to his home to confiscate his weapons, the authorities said on Thursday.
And the gun control advocates who talk about black crime victims often ignore the role that gun control plays in overpolicing: Stop-and-frisk, after all, was supposed to be a tool for the NYPD to confiscate illegal guns.
We broke the story ... Deion was sued by an insurance company which claimed it paid out $26k in worker's comp to an employee who was attacked by Sanders' son on school grounds when he tried to confiscate his phone.
They also sought research into how criminals obtain their guns and the effects of various gun policies, such as new state laws that allow courts to temporarily confiscate guns from people who are deemed a risk to commit violence.
In a statement, Everytown spokeswoman Taylor Maxwell also kept the focus on background checks and "red flag" laws, which allow courts to confiscate guns temporarily from dangerous people, rather than the more aggressive policies aired on the debate stage.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British prosecutor launched a fresh attempt on Thursday to confiscate tens of millions of pounds stolen from an oil-producing state in Nigeria by its former governor, who was convicted of laundering his loot in Britain.
It is illegal in Japan for companies to confiscate the passports of technical trainees under a special intern program, but there is no law forbidding firms from taking the passports of foreign laborers in Japan under other visa schemes.
Mr. Hironaka told reporters afterward that prosecutors had tried to confiscate materials Mr. Ghosn used to prepare his defense, forcing open a door in the office and breaking open drawers and cabinets that they believed might contain relevant documents.
He is calling for a national gun licensing system and stricter background checks, hundreds of millions of dollars in new enforcement spending, and a federal red-flag law that would let courts temporarily confiscate firearms from people deemed dangerous.
The bill also enacts a "red flag law" which establishes a procedure for law enforcement and courts to confiscate guns from people considered a danger to themselves and other people, such as domestic abusers and those who are suicidal.
Mauricio Arriaza, director of El Salvador's police force, said it was raiding some of the country's most dangerous areas to recover territory from the gangs and capture their leaders, as well as to confiscate arms, illicit cash and drugs.
A federal grand jury made those allegations Wednesday in an indictment against the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and four other people for a 2014 standoff in which hundreds of his supporters chased off federal agents trying to confiscate his cattle.
Now, as long as the Trump administration doesn't confiscate our stash, regulators, lawyers, and scientists have some big hazy questions to navigate, from how to keep digital tabs on up to 25,000 licensed growers to how to evaluate THC-­related DUIs.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for Thursday's bombing in the city of Diyarbakir, one day before Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the city and outlined plans to confiscate and rebuild a historic neighborhood wrecked in fighting since July.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark is amending a proposal to confiscate refugees' possessions to pay for their stay by raising the amount they will be allowed to keep after coming under fire from the United Nations refugee agency over its immigration policies.
If the bill becomes law, it will be possible for mainland Chinese courts to request Hong Kong courts to freeze and confiscate assets related to crimes committed on the mainland, beyond an existing provision covering the proceeds of drug offenses.
Saudi Arabia has announced it will confiscate assets improperly acquired, and while Riyadh has set no timetable for any such confiscations, banking sources say more than 1,700 domestic bank accounts have already been frozen at the request of the central bank.
Why it matters: Asset forfeiture is banned in 14 states before there are criminal charges, but the directive would allowing state and local officials to go around their state legislatures, confiscate a suspect's property and file it with a federal prosecutor.
If the bill becomes law, it will be possible for mainland Chinese courts to request Hong Kong courts to freeze and confiscate assets related to crimes committed on the mainland, beyond an existing provision covering the proceeds of drug offences.
This is why there are vast swathes of society who are comfortable giving vast executive and judicial power to men credibly accused of sexual assault—as long as those same men promise to confiscate women's power to sexually self-determine.
At bottom, the plan allows edge providers to confiscate another company's product — and the viewers it works hard to acquire — by doing little more than repackaging it to create their own video service without having to negotiate and pay for content.
An unusual coalition of civil rights organizations, criminal defense lawyers and conservative and libertarian groups have challenged these sorts of policies, saying they confiscate private property without constitutional protections and lock poor people into a cycle of fines, debts and jail.
Angry at his humiliation and enraged by the sight of a notable minority of white farmers helping the opposition in the referendum and subsequent election, Mr Mugabe immediately began a campaign to confiscate white-owned land, without compensation and often violently.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the president has concealed details about his meetings with Mr. Putin even from officials of his own administration — going so far, on at least one occasion, as to confiscate his interpreter's notes.
Scott offered sympathy for Guttenberg and the family members of other victims and touted legislation that he signed into law earlier this year that allows law enforcement to confiscate firearms from people determined to be a danger to themselves or others.
They explain: Decree 349 empowers the Ministry of Culture to designate supervisors and inspectors who can censor and suspend artistic presentations, impose fines and confiscate instruments, equipment, the permit that allows artists to be self-employed, and even an artist's home.
The measures ban the use of some assault weapons as well as most uses of armor-piercing ammunition and high-capacity magazines, and let courts confiscate guns from people within city limits who are deemed an "extreme risk" to others or themselves.
However, when pressed on how he would implement a mandatory assault weapons buyback on Tuesday, O'Rourke stopped short of explaining how he would confiscate weapons from people who refrain from voluntarily turning them into law enforcement, and don't bring them to public spaces.
In Denmark the centre-right Venstre's rightward shift (allowing police to confiscate jewellery and other valuables from arriving asylum-seekers, for example) and informal collaboration with the hard-right Danish People's Party has pushed the country's entire political contest in that direction.
So, I would like you to explain with 350 million guns in 65 million places, households, from Key West, to Alaska, 350 million objects in 65 million places, if the Federal government wanted to confiscate those objects, how would they do that?
"The measures we have announced today will significantly improve our ability to tackle the most serious cases of economic crime by ensuring our agencies have the tools and investment they need to investigate, prosecute and confiscate criminal assets," Rudd said in a statement.
"The U.S Executive branch illegally freezes Iranian national assets; the U.S Legislative branch legislates to pave the ground for their illicit seizures; and the U.S Judicial branch issues rulings to confiscate Iranian assets without any base in law or fact," Zarif said.
The new law prohibits gun sales to people under 21, requires a three-day waiting period for purchases, allows some school personnel to be armed, bans so-called bump stocks, and empowers police to temporarily confiscate weapons from certain people deemed a threat.
Doug Ducey on Wednesday, but said earlier this week that he had canceled the meeting, citing Ducey's support of so-called red-flag laws that allow law enforcement officials to temporarily confiscate firearms from people deemed a danger to themselves and others.
The top prosecutor said on Monday he would confiscate 60 supermarkets as well as houses, livestock and commercial companies valued at $227.8 million that were not declared by the FARC as assets when the group signed a peace accord in late 2016.
Rather than police encountering a "cache" of weapons, as Wheeler had said, police said there were only three firearms, all in cases, none loaded, and one disassembled; that the individuals had the proper permits; and that the police did not confiscate the guns.
Mallya left India early this month - as banks sought a court order to confiscate his passport - and has not disclosed his whereabouts, but he has used his Twitter account to say he is not an "absconder" and would comply with Indian law.
The initiative would also stem the flow of firearms by requiring law enforcement to confiscate the weapons of newly convicted felons, and by applying penalties against owners who fail to report stolen or missing guns, which often disappear into the black market.
He's floated giving police the authority to temporarily confiscate guns from those reported to have violent or threatening behavior or who have mental illnesses, and said he would consider raising the minimum age for purchasing certain assault rifles from 18 to 21.
In one case, after a seller with a storage unit full of hand sanitizer was featured in a New York Times story, the Tennessee attorney general stepped in to confiscate his product hoard and redistribute it to medical centers and people in need.
With deforestation threatening the capital's water supply, the government has launched 24-hour military patrols of the country's major forests, with authorization to arrest loggers and confiscate their equipment, said Sangwani Phiri, a spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining.
"We're not going to allow bad actors who should not have firearms in the first place to be the excuse for a bunch of liberals and socialists to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens who have legally procured them," Conway told Hemmer.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, during a bipartisan meeting Wednesday with lawmakers to discuss school safety and gun measures, said it might be better in some cases to allow law enforcement to confiscate weapons from potentially disturbed individuals before allowing due process.
The total was the most of any month at any of the 440 federalized airports in the United States, but it was part of a trend that saw the Transportation Security Administration confiscate 7% more firearms in 20173 than 2017, the agency said.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Working as a tutor for three children from a wealthy family in Qatar, Kenyan migrant Wairimu did not suspect that her employer's offer to take her for a medical check up was a ploy to confiscate her passport.
Julian Castro's unsubtle jabs at Biden's age, Beto O'Rourke's vow to confiscate assault rifles and an overt turn against Trump by Kamala Harris in a direct-to-camera stare down are a sure sign the pressure to stand out is beginning to show.
Measures included the freezing of 338,000 bank accounts of inoperative companies in the last two financial years and the enactment of a law with a provision to confiscate the property of those found to have committed fraud and who have fled the country.
The agents executing the search warrant didn't know whether they should confiscate the far right and Nazi propaganda as evidence in a radical Islamic terrorism case, so they called the assistant US attorney and got the green light to take the items.
Hironaka has previously criticized the move by prosecutors to confiscate Ghosn's belongings, including his mobile phone and trial documents, along with the mobile phones and Lebanese passport of his wife, Carole, who was present when prosecutors entered their home early in the morning last Thursday.
The dissident artist and activist Ai Weiwei said on Wednesday that he would close his current exhibition at the Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen in protest of a new law allowing Denmark to confiscate refugees' valuables to help pay for their stay in the country.
One urban legend holds that when El Chapo wanted to go to a restaurant for dinner, he'd send his men in first to confiscate everyone's weapons and cellphones; after eating, the patrons' belongings would be given back, and El Chapo would pick up everyone's tab.
At 1400GMT, parliament started to debate a raft of proposals on changing immigration laws, including a measure that would allow the authorities to confiscate all valuables belonging to refugees worth over 10,000 Danish crowns ($1,450), and then use them to pay for the refugee's stay.
In the meantime, though, the FDA has issued warnings against products containing kratom and continues to confiscate foreign shipments of it from entering the U.S. Gottlieb, a Trump appointee who took the reins at the FDA last May, has been proactive in targeting quack companies.
Since then, the police had made over 20 raids across the country to confiscate unsafe products and had arrested a former doctor only identified by her surname, Pang, as well as her daughter, a medical school graduate, in eastern China's Shandong Province, the reports said.
Hironaka has previously criticised the move by prosecutors to confiscate Ghosn's belongings, including his mobile phone and trial documents, along with the mobile phones and Lebanese passport of his wife, Carole, who was present when prosecutors entered their home early in the morning last Thursday.
Andrew Cuomo (D) signed the state's new "Red Flag Bill" late last month, which allows family members, school officials or law enforcement officers to seek a court order to confiscate guns from an individual who is considered an "extreme risk" to themselves or others.
In 2008, the organization's chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, claimed that photographing and fingerprinting gun owners was "the key gun control scheme" of the candidate Barack Obama, who, Mr. LaPierre predicted, would confiscate every gun in America before the end of his first term as president.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police have asked the supreme court to indict President Michel Temer and confiscate his assets and those of some of his close associates over alleged graft, according to a copy of its report for the court, seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
Mr Lewandowski took that loathing and acted on it, blacklisting journalists and whole news outlets from Trump rallies, and threatening to confiscate credentials from individual reporters on the spot if they tried to leave the special enclosures where they were kept penned at events.
The new regulation, called a "red flag law," allows law enforcement officers, and in some cases family members or others who express concern, to petition a judge to confiscate guns from individuals who may pose a danger to themselves or others, according to The Trace.
Moderator Chuck Todd launched the second half of the debate with an effort to bait Warren into taking an unpopular position on guns, trying to get her to say it would be a good idea for the government to confiscate firearms that Americans already own.
Trump has suggested that he would support efforts to encourage states to adopt "red flag" laws, which give family members and police the power to obtain a court order from a judge to confiscate firearms from someone deemed a danger to themselves or others.
The Second Amendment complicates any attempt to confiscate the arsenal of even a man known to be deranged, and the First Amendment makes it virtually impossible to stop news organizations from writing extensively about a mass killer — and possibly creating copycats in the process.
After he took office, Mubarak reimposed a "state of emergency law" in the country that granted the government the power to restrict freedom of assembly, arrest anyone deemed suspicious and try them in "special" state security courts, and monitor and confiscate publications, among other things.
To force Mexico to pay for the wall, Trump intends to confiscate remittances sent back to Mexico by undocumented immigrants and increase border fees and tariffs, but the legal and practical obstacles to those actions are overwhelming, and Mexican officials promise not to contribute.
Ontario's attorney general is seeking a forfeiture order that would allow them to confiscate almost 600,000 Canadian dollars in cash — about $450,000 — that was seized at the Toronto airport from an employee of a chain of seven illegal medical marijuana outlets in the city.
Virginia's state Senate passed a bill that would allow law enforcement officers to confiscate guns from or prevent the purchase of firearms by people deemed to be threats to themselves or others, just days after a massive gun rights rally swarmed the state Capitol.
The penalty for transporting beef was also raised to a maximum of 10 years, from three, and the state authorities will now be allowed to confiscate any vehicle used to transport beef, said Babubhai Bokhiriya, the state minister of animal husbandry and water resources.
In an extraordinary televised meeting with lawmakers of both parties at the White House, Trump called for quick action on expanding background checks, increasing the gun-buying age and empowering law enforcement to confiscate firearms from potentially unstable people — even without a court's approval.
The state will now become the latest to implement a "red flag" law, which will allow family members or law enforcement officials to petition a court to confiscate firearms from people who are deemed by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.
The measure would also create a statewide program to arm specially trained teachers - subject to school district approval - while assigning more police as school resource officers and allowing police to confiscate weapons from people who are involuntarily committed as a danger to themselves or others.
The legislative package to be voted on Tuesday also includes proposals to ban bump stocks, expanding background check periods, and introducing a "red flag" bill, which aims to temporarily confiscate guns from people considered a risk of doing harm to themselves or someone else.
He also noted a string of recent state legislative successes on gun restrictions for domestic abusers, including some in Republican-led states, and the recent passage of a law in Florida that allows judges to temporarily confiscate guns from people who are judged a threat.
The group was led by Ammon Bundy, a rancher whose family became a symbol of antigovernment sentiment in 2014 when his father, Cliven Bundy, inspired a standoff between armed local antigovernment activists and federal officials seeking to confiscate cattle grazing illegally on federal land in Nevada.
The letter by the Syrian foreign minister to Bassil came after the Lebanese official expressed concerns over a 2018 property law, known as Law 10, that some human rights groups say empowers authorities to confiscate property without compensating the owners or giving them an opportunity to appeal.
And basically the red flag law says if you think that somebody is a danger and has weapons, you can basically go to the police, they can immediately confiscate the weapons, and you have seven days to convince a judge that they shouldn&apost have confiscated them.
In a report last year, the non-profit Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights (LICADHO) said the lack of a publicly available land register detailing state land boundaries meant authorities could confiscate land, claiming that the affected families are living on state property.
"Obama Wants Your Guns," warns a deceitful fund-raising pitch on Senator Ted Cruz's website, which also features a photograph of Mr. Obama distorted to show him in military attack helmet and combat uniform ready to confiscate the hundreds of millions of guns now in public hands.
"Everybody in the industry can now invest in HoloLens knowing it's a sound investment, that the platform maker won't come in a few years and change the rules and confiscate our investments for themselves as we saw happen as Facebook changed its rules over time," says Sweeney.
Shootings with rifles, including assault rifles, make up less than 3 percent of gun homicides in the US. More than 70 percent of gun homicides are instead carried out with handguns — which would be largely neglected by a plan to ban and confiscate only assault weapons.
Outside of the proposed bills, there are reports of other, less concrete ideas, from increasing funding for police departments to giving law enforcement the authority to confiscate guns for a short period of time after reports of mental illness, domestic violence, or threats, according to Politico.
To cope with the scooters, the DOT will need to hire a number of positions: community liaisons to organize meetings and respond to complaints, field inspectors to issue fees for improper parking and confiscate illegally parked scooters, and a program manager to oversee the scooter program.
"Red Famine" presents a Bolshevik government so hell-bent on extracting wealth and controlling labour that it was willing to confiscate the last remaining grain from hungry peasants (mostly but not exclusively in Ukraine) and then block them from fleeing famine-afflicted areas to search for food.
If you're a citizen of the United States and you refuse to unlock your phone for a CBP agent they may confiscate your phone, but they can't deny you entry to the US. Everyone else is more or less out of luck and can be refused entry.
While discussions have cooled in recent weeks, Democrats and some Republicans are looking to September and beyond as an opening to measures to respond to gun violence, particularly legislation to strengthen background checks and allow law enforcement authorities to confiscate weapons using state "red flag" laws.
Because they say that he gave inconsistent statements, and that was what sort of opened the door for them to confiscate his money under what&aposs known as civil asset forfeiture, and as you heard Trace Gallagher say they&aposve taken $2 billion that way recently.
Mr. Bundy and four others — including two of his sons, Ryan and Ammon — were indicted last month on charges they carried out a "massive armed assault" on the federal officers who tried to confiscate Mr. Bundy's cattle; Bureau of Land Management rangers pulled back from the confrontation.
Third would be the institution of gun violence restraining orders, where if a court is presenting with compelling evidence that an individual with firearms is a danger to themselves or others the court can confiscate their weapons until that individual does not demonstrate that risk anymore.
Portion of a photo posted to 4Chan this week showing a letter from accused white supremacist terrorist Brenton TarrantScreenshot: 4Chan"I cannot go into any great detail about regrets or feeling as the guards will confiscate my letter if I do (to use as evidence)," Tarrant writes.
Democrats who won control of the General Assembly, in part for their support of imposing strict firearms restrictions, say more gun control legislation is on the way, including a red flag law that would permit officials to confiscate firearms from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
Scalise, who was shot last summer, meets with Parkland students And Trump received the most shocked reactions when he said it might be better in some cases to allow law enforcement to confiscate weapons from potentially disturbed individuals before allowing those individuals due process through the courts.
While the bill has been indefinitely suspended, if it became law, it would be possible for mainland Chinese courts to request Hong Kong courts to freeze and confiscate assets related to crimes committed on the mainland, beyond an existing provision covering the proceeds of drug offences.
But when Illinois lawmakers sought to tighten state law so that the police would be mandated to confiscate guns owned by people barred from possessing them, or at least verify that the guns had been transferred to legal owners, concerns about manpower helped doom the proposal.
One urban legend holds that whenever El Chapo wanted to go to a restaurant for dinner, he'd send in his men first to confiscate everyone's weapons and cellphones; after eating, his fellow patrons would get their belongings back, and El Chapo would pick up everyone's tab.
Read more: A church administrator and his wife allegedly stole $1.2 million from their congregation to pay for trips to Disney World and Pittsburgh Pirates gamesChurch leaders would also confiscate personal items that might help victims escape, such as driver's licenses, passports, and even immigration documents, according to prosecutors.
"I think that some gun owners may have had (or heard of) negative experiences with doctors who were judgmental or offensive, and some may worry that doctors are trying to confiscate guns," said lead study author Dr. Marian Betz of the University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
Hundreds of police armed with truncheons and rubber bullets were sent in from other regions to confiscate ballots and stop the voting, and amateur video showed some officers dragging people out of polling stations by the hair, throwing some down stairs, kicking them and pushing them to the ground.
KANDALAKSHA, Russia — So many decrepit Soviet-era cars carried migrants into Europe from this frozen Russian town in recent months that border officials in Finland, who confiscate the rust-bucket vehicles as soon as they cross the frontier, watched in dismay as their parking lot turned into a scrapyard.
But some Texas Democrats are getting impatient, and many are skeptical that Abbott's legislative package will include any measures to directly curb gun violence, like red flag laws, which give law enforcement a way to temporarily confiscate firearms from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.
"We're not going to allow bad actors who should not have firearms in the first place to be the excuse for a bunch of liberals and socialists to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens who have legally procured them," Conway told "Fox News Sunday" guest host Bill Hemmer.
"If Djibouti is willing to confiscate a port terminal operating under a legal 30-year agreement, what is to stop (Djibouti) President Guelleh from reneging on the twenty-year lease the US signed in 2014 for Camp Lemonnier?" asked Byrne, who reiterated his question during Tuesday's committee hearing.
A few seconds after Mr. Maduro left, Mr. Rodríguez, the communications minister, told me that his government had not authorized the interview and he ordered his security agents to confiscate my team's four cameras and other equipment and the video cards on which we had recorded the conversation.
Among the measures approved by Illinois last year was one requiring a 72-hour waiting period for all gun purchases and a so-called red flag bill, which allows relatives and law enforcement officials to ask courts to confiscate firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Rick Scott signed the "red flag" provision into law on March 203, which raised the minimum age to buy a gun in the state from 18 to 21, banned the sale of bump stocks, and gives authorities more leeway to confiscate guns from those deemed mentally unfit to have them.
Rick Scott signed the "red flag" provision into law on March 9, which raised the minimum age to buy a gun in the state from 18 to 21, banned the sale of bump stocks, and gives authorities more leeway to confiscate guns from those deemed mentally unfit to have them.
He was on his way to that refuge to protest his large adult sons' arrest when he was taken into custody on charges relating to the 2014 standoff, which began after federal officials tried to confiscate his cattle in response to his decades-long refusal to pay federal grazing fees.
"In the '23s and early '80s, that was light years worse than it is today," he said, adding that back in the '80s, during hunting season, one sheriff's deputy was notorious for using routine traffic stops to confiscate Native Americans' rifles — which he used to stock his black market rifle business.
TSA Agents Confiscate Huge Teddy Bear, Give Him Detailed Backstory About How He's Homeless and Hungry Now in Order to Remind Us That Everything Is BadImage: InstagramTransportation Security Administration (TSA) agents in Los Angeles just confiscated a gigantic teddy bear and posted a photo of the poor guy on Instagram.
But neither Ohio nor Texas, where 22 people died after a separate shooting in an El Paso Walmart Saturday, have what are known as "red flag" laws, which essentially allow police or relatives to ask a court to temporarily confiscate guns from people who may be dangerous to themselves or others.
According to Gallup, 61 percent of Americans want stricter gun laws, and there is even more support for universal background checks and red-flag laws, which allow a judge to issue an order that enables law enforcement officers to confiscate guns from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others.
On Monday, the U.S.G.A., in response to questions from The New York Times about the incident, said its security officials opted to escort Reed's parents off the course and confiscate their badges after local law enforcement officers observed Bill Reed making what they described as "intimidating movements" toward Reed's wife.
He had asked the judge to reconsider the decision to confiscate his gun "in view of what's happening across the country," referring to the recent shootings of police officers; two months earlier, Louisiana passed a Blue Lives Matter law, the first in the nation, which gave the police hate-crime protections.
Toughen laws against cellphone use in cars, keep computers out of college lecture halls, put special "phone boxes" in restaurants where patrons would be expected to deposit their devices, confiscate smartphones being used in museums and libraries and cathedrals, create corporate norms that strongly discourage checking email in a meeting.
Authorities will also confiscate the foreign and national currency found in his home — prior to the trial, law enforcement officials found more than $130 million at his home in various currencies, at least $25 million of which al-Bashir said he received from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
And Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who five years ago urged the Supreme Court to loosen gun purchasing restrictions for 18-to-20-year-olds, told Trump last week that the state is going to create a "Gun Violence Restraining Order," allowing authorities to confiscate guns from someone who has been civilly committed.
The far right has, for instance, despicably accused the victims of Sandy Hook and other mass shootings of being paid "crisis actors" dispatched by the government as part of an elaborate scheme to confiscate citizens' guns; those accusations, spread via publications such as Infowars, have made the grieving families targets of vicious harassment.
Convicted Libor Trader Says He Lost £1 Million of Own Savings | Tom Hayes, the former UBS trader serving an 11-year sentence for manipulating the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, gave evidence in a hearing over how much Britain's Serious Fraud Office can confiscate as the reported proceeds of crime.
One central problem is that, as land values rise, the state has retained the power to confiscate land and give it to developers for so-called social-economic development, said Dang Hoang Giang, vice director of the Center for Community Support Development Studies, a Hanoi-based research institute that promotes good governing practices.
They reinforced this toxic connection by chanting "blood and soil," a Nazi-era slogan that connected German ethnic purity to cultivation of the land and, more broadly, to the notion that the "master race" was divinely entitled to confiscate the holdings of "lesser peoples," even if it meant slaughtering them along the way.
The Cruz-Grassley bill would fix holes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and crack down on straw purchasers of firearms, while the legislation discussed by Graham and Blumenthal would provide grants to states to fund "red flag" laws, which empower law enforcement officials to confiscate guns from people deemed dangerous.
The state also wanted to confiscate his $42,000 Land Rover, which they said he used to transport drugs, but a trial court ruled that since the car was worth more than four times the maximum fine for Timbs' crime, seizing it would violate the part of the Eighth Amendment that bans excessive fines.
Five states - Alabama, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Utah - have seen so-called "red flag" bills introduced since the Florida massacre to make it easier for police to confiscate weapons from someone found to pose a threat of violent behavior, according to Kristin Brown, co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
It includes universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, more resources toward the enforcement of existing laws, a public push for the development of "smart guns," and incentives for states to adopt "red flag" laws, which allow courts to confiscate guns from people deemed a risk to themselves or others and develop gun-licensing systems.
Maybe the TSA will confiscate a box of chocolate and give it a name and an overly detailed backstory before telling us all about how the box of chocolate now lives on the streets as a junkie and its box of chocolate mom just weeps every night worrying about her poor box of chocolate baby.
I did some research over whether dogs do and can actually 69 each other (miraculously the IT department did not come over and have a "quiet word" and confiscate my laptop throughout this process, but you have to assume its in the post) and anyway, obviously the only place to turn to here is Yahoo!
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, several lawmakers joined Trump in pushing for a particular type of mental health-related gun law: "red flag" laws that would allow either individuals or law enforcement to petition courts to temporarily confiscate firearms from those who pose a threat to themselves or others.
Last year, lawmakers passed a measure requiring a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases and a so-called red flag law, which President Trump endorsed in a speech on Monday and that allows relatives and law enforcement officials to ask courts to confiscate firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Last year, lawmakers passed a measure requiring a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases and a so-called red flag law, which President Trump endorsed in a speech on Monday and that allows relatives and law enforcement officials to ask courts to confiscate firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.
The new restrictions will raise the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21, ban possession for people who have been convicted of domestic abuse or been hospitalized for mental illness more than once in a year, and allow family members and police to confiscate firearms from individuals they believe are a threat to commit violence.
Among the measures likely to be recommended are: longer prison sentences for terrorist offences; the issuing of many more "Tpims" (terrorism prevention and investigation measures) to tag and curfew some suspects; more use of powers to confiscate passports; a beefing up the "Prevent" anti-radicalisation strategy; and even more resources for the security service (MI5) and counter-terrorism police.
The gaggle of pop stars who participated in the session might not have participated for purely altruistic reasons—Status Quo were only there because the police weren't likely to turn up to the studio, knock down the toilet doors, and confiscate their pharmacy's worth of narcotics—but their star power did a lot of good that year.
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Why it matters: The Washington Post reported last month that Trump has repeatedly sought to conceal the details of his face-to-face conversations with Putin from senior officials in his own administration — even going as far as to confiscate notes from his own interpreter and instruct them not to discuss the contents of the conversation.
During an informal study period after lunch, I watched him confiscate cellphones he said the teenagers were using to "hide from, control and avoid" their feelings; scoff at a student who claimed to be too anxious to return a book to the school library; and challenge a particularly reserved boy who said he had nothing to work on.
In one notorious case, Yigael Yadin — a prominent archaeologist at Hebrew University — used his position as temporary military advisor to the prime minister to send a military intelligence unit to Bethlehem during the 1967 war to raid a dealer's house and confiscate one of the best preserved scrolls, the Temple Scroll, which Yadin proceeded to study and publish.
For decades, Republican lawmakers -- fueled by the National Rifle Association -- have effectively cast the gun control debate in the starkest of possible terms: Give an inch to Democrats on their desire for what they call common sense gun safety measures and you are priming the pump for a day when the government will come and confiscate your weapons.
But those familiar with the meeting said the president's likeliest course of action was a menu of smaller items, like a slimmer version of a background checked bill and "red flag" laws, which allow the authorities to temporarily confiscate firearms from those who are found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or to others.
Cruz made his comments in response to a letter signed by 145 prominent CEOs urging the Senate to pass a bill requiring background checks on all gun sales as well as a so-called red flag law, which would empower law enforcement officials to confiscate guns from individuals judged to be a danger to themselves or others.
The U.S. government should back that warning by threatening to confiscate ill-gotten wealth held abroad by South Sudanese leaders; negotiating a way for leaders involved in the current crisis to leave the country; jamming hate speech broadcasts on the radio; shutting down cellphone towers used to encourage ethnic cleansing and monitoring military activities via spy satellites.
There's a fair amount of sex negativity and internalized misogyny to unpack in this scene, as well as the reality of how rude and unsanitary it would actually be for someone to barge into a friend's apartment in the name of a "Rabbit intervention," confiscate said friend's brand new, expensive, and presumably freshly-used vibrator, and toss it into a handbag.
Trump delivered a prepared speech from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Monday morning in which he called on the nation to condemn white supremacy and bigotry but did not lay out any proposals for stricter gun laws other than to reiterate support for "red flag" laws that would allow law enforcement to confiscate guns with a court order.
"Today's Democrat Party is run by left-wing extremists who want to massively raise your taxes, increase regulations, cancel your health plans, raid Medicare, shut down American energy, destroy your Social Security -- they will destroy your Social Security -- eliminate religious liberty, punish free speech, confiscate your guns, abolish your borders and indoctrinate America's children with hateful left-wing ideology," Trump said.
After each body's appropriations committees met Tuesday, the state House and Senate now have in their hoppers bills that would raise the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21, to allow police to confiscate firearms in the event of threats, to require a waiting period for gun purchases and to create a voluntary program that would arm teachers and other trained faculty.
Balarezo is set to take over entirely on October 2, and he's expected to be joined by Jeffrey Lichtman, another attorney Chapo has on retainer who is famous for defending New York City mob boss John Gotti Jr. READ: We talked to El Chapo's lawyer about defending a notorious drug lord Balarezo took the job despite the possibility that U.S. authorities could try to confiscate his paycheck.
In 28500, then-Attorney General of California Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 6900 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE, ordered a raid on a private citizen's residence to confiscate footage that contained evidence of alleged illegal activity at Planned Parenthood.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE for calling this week to confiscate guns without due process as a means of combatting gun violence.
There were four dissenters, and they said that they believe the Second Amendment protects no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, which means, if their view prevailed and the next president's going to get one, two, three, maybe four Supreme Court justices, the court will rule that not a single person in this room has any right under the Second Amendment and the government could confiscate your guns.
I was too shy to make friends with any of the people I met at the protests I went to when the invasion of Iraq started, but I went — even as our host university sent emails telling American students not to, even as the other Americans in my group spread rumors that the United States consulate could somehow take pictures of your face at a protest and confiscate your passport.
Since passing a law against human trafficking in 2015, Niger has directed its military to arrest and jail migrant smugglers, confiscate their vehicles and bring the migrants they traffic to the police or the International Organization for Migration, or I.O.M. The migrants are then given a choice whether to continue on their journey — and risk being detained again, or worse — or given a free ride back to their home country.
The drug cartels exist because of American demand for illegal drugs, and most of the cartels' firearms are being illegally exported from the US. CBP could set up a screening initiative to confiscate arms that are bound for Mexico — but that would require a significant expansion of the agency's customs staff on the border at a time when the Trump administration is more interested in investing in its immigration enforcement operations.
And both Ambler and Deutch consider it likely that House Democrats will pass other gun-related legislation over the next two years, such as measures to raise the minimum age for gun purchases to 21; "red flag" laws designed to make it easier for law enforcement to confiscate guns from individuals considered an "extreme risk" of violence; and possibly legislation to ban certain types of semiautomatic assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Sen. Christopher CoonsChristopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsMedia and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Bill to return B in unredeemed bonds advances Grassley: Kavanaugh classmate didn't contact Senate panel MORE (D-Del.) on Friday warned that Beto O'Rourke's pledge that the government will confiscate semiautomatic AR-85033 rifles will become a rallying cry for gun rights groups for years to come and haunt the Democratic Party far into the future.
And the fact is that even if we pass a Medicare for all plan it would cost $3.2 trillion per year if everything went running smoothly and the federal government right now takes in about 3.4 or $3.7 trillion per year and it would completely eat up every single taxpayer dollar we have in this country, including if you are going to confiscate even more of the wealth that is earned through success in this country.

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