It was seized from one of Mr. Jen's properties in the criminal investigation by the district attorney's office, although the bankruptcy judge later ruled that the jewelry — and $11,000 — should be returned to Nancy Jen.
More than 1,000 boxes, containing a total of 20 tonnes of miniature Eiffel Towers, were seized from two depots and three shops in the Paris region, a security official confirmed to Agence France-Presse.
Image caption "Our children are sacred, we will not let them rob you of Christmas". In total, 3,821,926 toys were seized from two warehouses, and would be sold at low prices, it said.
The cocaine, which has a street value of $430 million, was seized from two Boeing 727s, said Edward Kwas, southeast regional commissioner of customs.
Two had been seized from a police car by vigilantes who reportedly slit their throats, and the third was the man whose head was paraded on a stake.
He said several vehicles and several thousand dollars had been seized from suspected dealers since the billboards were erected.
In Nebraska, one group of farmers showed up at a foreclosure sale and saw to it that every item that had been seized from a farmer's widow sold for five cents, leaving the bank with a total settlement of just $5.35.
A further three girls have since been seized from another nearby village, a local official told the AFP news agency.
He also controls at least one large farm that had been seized from its white owners.
Milan prosecutors had asked that each bank be fined 900,000 euros ($1.3 million) and that a total of 120.6 million euros be seized from the banks: 70 million euros from Citigroup, 30.7 million euros from Bank of America, 14 million euros from Deutsche Bank and 5.9 million euros from Morgan Stanley.
