"confiscating" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an English verb meaning "to take away someone's property by the authority of the law". For example, "The government has been confiscating private property for the construction of the new highway".
The day before, police raided Borisovskyie Novosti, an independent weekly in Barysaw, a town in the Minsk region, confiscating newsroom equipment.
A London borough has a "crackdown" against homelessness, which involves confiscating the sleeping bags from people who have nothing but a sleeping bag.
On the Todd river, the battle against campers that had been squalling along for more than a century was gathering force once more, with rangers confiscating blankets or soaking them with water and making them unusable.
The rights and wrongs of this case are complex but if the Metropolitan Police does have proper suspicions about Mr Miranda that warrant holding him, and confiscating his mobile phone, camera, laptop and memory sticks, it needs to make those reasons public quickly.
While I have no problem "switching off" – I am by disposition incredibly lazy – I took my instructions to unplug literally, and set about ceremonially switching off and confiscating all our gadgets.
Technically, I suppose, he's confiscating it.
Freezing energy prices and confiscating builders' land would reduce investment in those industries when Britain needs more power stations and houses, not fewer.
This explains why Mr Arafat is being "isolated" and the army is systematically destroying the regime, imprisoning its policemen, commandeering its ministries and confiscating their documents.
Everyone complains about it: taxi drivers grumble about soldiers at checkpoints confiscating money or qat, the mildly narcotic leaf that is universally chewed; businessmen say that the obligatory payouts to officials discourage, even prohibit, investment.The corruption is said to go all the way up, with top politicians and soldiers the biggest offenders.
Taking it away would be like confiscating a television set," Mr Dmitriev says.
The first thing the troops did on arrival in Tijuana was to disarm the local police, confiscating their guns for ballistics tests to check whether they had been used in murders.
