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Over $300,000 Cash, Boxes Of Documents And A Stuffed Bear Seized From Tax Business
May 13, 2010
Recently unsealed federal court documents show that FBI and IRS agents seized over $300,000, boxes of tax documents, computers, vehicles and even a stuffed teddy bear when they raided three locations of a tax and check cashing business along with the home of the business owners.
The search warrants were executed the morning of March 4 against Alice Preyear Mobley, Lloyd Preyear and Preyear Tax and Check Cashing Services, LLC. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service served a federal search warrant at the Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing, LLC on Ridgely Street in Atmore, as well as locations of the business in Monroeville and Thomasville, Alabama, and the Monroeville home of Alice Preyear Mobley. According to the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office, Mobley is the owner of the tax and check cashing business.
The exact reason the U.S. government sought the search warrants is still secret; a federal judge sealed the search warrant applications and reasons for obtaining them. But other unsealed documents in the case reveal that the government was seeking “business, bank and accounting records, documents and proceeds related to fraud against the government, tax fraud and money laundering, U.S. currency, property that constitutes evidence of the commission of a criminal offense and contraband, fruits of a crime or other things criminally possessed therein.”
Alice Preyear Mobley, Lloyd Preyear and Preyear Tax and Check Cashing Services, LLC have requested that the government return property from the home and business locations in Atmore and Monroeville. The defendants claim that the search warrants were missing a necessary attachment in order to be valid.
Items seized during the execution of the search warrants included $263,000 in $100 bills from the defendants’ house, many boxes of tax records and other documents and even a “stuffed white bear”.
At the time of the search, spokesperson for both the IRS and the FBI would only confirm that they executed the search warrants, with an IRS spokesperson saying “we were there on official business”. Otherwise, the government has not provided any public information about the search warrants.
Some of the items seized during the execution of the search warrants, according to federal court documents, were:
Residence at 2193 Monroe Station Road, Monroeville, AL
- $263,000 from a safe in the master bedroom at the main house
- $6,900 in the pool house
- multiple computers
- various documents and paperwork
- cellular telephones
- one stuffed white bear
- a Cadillac Escalade
- a 4×10 trailer
Business at 200 North Main Street, Atmore
- tax documents
- tax software
- cellular phones
- trash
- loan applications
- client tax files
- tax records
- CD’s from a Ford Expedition
Business at 1150 West Front Street, Thomasville
- checks
- client folders
- binders and documents
- boxes of documents
- papers from trash can
- information copied from hard drives
Business at 2181 South Highway 21 Bypass, Monroeville
- $39,141.45 in cash
- checks
- boxes of documents
- sticky notes from toilet
- deposit records
- hard drive
- videotapes
Pictured above: A federal agent enters Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing, LLC in Atmore March 4. Pictured inset: Agents search a vehicle at the business. Pictured below: A federal agent and Atmore Police officer talk to an employee of the business during the raid. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
Comments
5 Responses to “Over $300,000 Cash, Boxes Of Documents And A Stuffed Bear Seized From Tax Business”
omg then where is my state paper so i can get my refund,what goes around comes around yu dont do bad and try to get by
HaHa I just knew someone was going to comment on the sticky notes!!
at least they got the teddie bear.he probly did it.
“The defendants claim that the search warrants were missing a necessary attachment in order to be valid.”
Can we find out what this necessary attachment was and if it actually does make the warrants invalid? The secrecy of this case makes it an appropriate target for citizen inquiry in what we try to maintain as a free democracy. Please don’t drop this story.
Seized from the Monroeville business location:
sticky notes from toilet
LOL, must be where he does his best brainstorming.