The government has agreed to return $1.1 million that it seized from an armored car company that was transporting cash from state-licensed cannabis businesses in California.
In return for the returned funds, the armored car company, Empyreal Logistics, has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the government, filed in California. The suit alleged that the seizures in California and Kansas were illegal.
Empyreal said, in a press release, that the settlement does not affect the separate civil forfeiture action filed in Kansas. That being said, the California and Kansas cases have nearly identical fact patterns, suggesting that the government may agree to a similar resolution in the Kansas case.