Elvis Mitchell's life is more interesting than yours.

2008-08-05 20:00:01

From the Detroit Free Press: Nationally known film critic Elvis Mitchell is trying to get back nearly $12,000 he carried in a cigar box through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Mitchell was entering Detroit in a cab from Windsor on April 26 when a luggage search turned up $11,817 in U.S. currency and 15 Cuban cigars, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency wants to keep the cash because Mitchell didn't declare it in Detroit or three days earlier when he flew to Toronto from New York. Anyone carrying more than $10,000 outside the country or into the United States must report it. Mitchell said he grabbed the wrong box when he left home in New York and was too embarrassed to disclose the money. "An awful and dumb situation," Mitchell said Monday. Also on the critic front: David Elliott, former critic at the San Diego Union, and before that the...

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