My boss just asked me a question and I can't find a definitive answer for her.

She wants to know how to freeze a drug dealer's bank accounts prior to doing a seizure warrant. I can't think of any mechanism since suit would have to be filed to get the court involved.

I suppose there might be a way if we could persuade the court handling his criminal case to order a freeze, but that seems somewhat unconstitutional without a seizure affidavit and warrant.

Anybody got an answer?

You can do a seizure warrant on the bank account and either force them to freeze the account or issue you a cashier's check to put into an interest bearing account pending a hearing.

I've got forms for doing these. Let me know if you need them.

Robert DuBoise
rduboise@sbcglobal.net

[This message was edited by Robert S. DuBoise on 08-08-06 at .]

The forms would be wonderful.

The email address is in my profile but it is pdhatlaw@aol.com