State seeks forfeiture of $9,500 in alleged drug money seized in Amhurst Street bust

A civil case by the state has been filed against Quinton L. Alexander and Wendy R. Colvin, both 28, of Magnolia, seeking the forfeiture of more than $9,500 in cash that police seized at their 2601 Amhurst Street home (pictured) on Jan. 31. Authorities claim the property was acquired or used in illicit drug transactions.
A civil case by the state has been filed against Quinton L. Alexander and Wendy R. Colvin, both 28, of Magnolia, seeking the forfeiture of more than $9,500 in cash that police seized at their 2601 Amhurst Street home (pictured) on Jan. 31. Authorities claim the property was acquired or used in illicit drug transactions.

A Magnolia couple arrested last month after a narcotics raid at their 2601 Amhurst Street home now has another legal issue on its hands.

In a civil suit filed Feb. 11 in Columbia County, the state of Arkansas, represented by 13th Judicial District Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Thomas Shepherd of El Dorado, requests that $9,533 in U.S. cash currency seized during the Jan. 31 bust be forfeited by defendants Quinton L. Alexander and Wendy Colvin. The filing says the funds were used or acquired illicitly and should be relinquished.

“On January 31, 2019, the [$9,533] was seized in Columbia County, Arkansas, by the Magnolia Police Department,” the filing states. “ … Under the provisions of [Arkansas Code], the above-described property should be forfeited to the plaintiff, state of Arkansas.”

A confiscation report filed by MPD Capt. Michael Caldwell claims the money was “furnished or intended to be furnished in exchange for controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance or profits” and that the proceeds were “traceable to such exchange.”

Summons in the civil case were also filed Monday. The defendants now have a certain set time to respond.

Alexander and Colvin were both taken into custody the night of Jan. 31. A Feb. 1. MPD report noted that their white, two-story Amhurst Street home contained “large quantities” of methamphetamine, ecstasy, and marijuana. According to Columbia County inmate records, Colvin was released on $100,000 bond Feb. 2, while Alexander was released with the same bond amount Feb. 11.

The defendants are each charged with possession of methamphetamine with purpose to deliver, possession of schedule I/II controlled substance with purpose to deliver, maintaining a drug premises, possession of schedule IV (marijuana) controlled substance with purpose to deliver, and possession of drug paraphernalia. According to court records, formal criminal case filings, as of Friday, have not yet been made.

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