Lawyer is federally indicted in heroin case, had $90K seized at airport
A California lawyer has been federally indicted in a heroin trafficking case in Las Vegas and lost $90,000 in cash when authorities seized the money from him at an Ohio airport earlier this year.
Glen Hunsberger, 46, and two co-defendants were charged Tuesday by a grand jury with conspiracy to distribute heroin, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The case began with a package of heroin allegedly mailed by an associate of Hunsberger’s, the Smoking Gun reports.
In July, a search of a Las Vegas home at which Hunsberger sometimes stayed turned up 20 pounds of marijuana, half a pound of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia, police said.
The $90,000 was seized from Hunsberger a month later at the Dayton, Ohio, airport. He told authorities he was transporting the money for a client, according to the two articles.
The attorney and his legal counsel declined requests for comment by the Review-Journal.
An earlier criminal complaint in the case said Hunsberger was arrested by Las Vegas police in 1994 after they found $33,000 and three kilos of cocaine in his hotel room. It isn’t clear from news reports how that matter concluded.
Hunsberger is in good standing as a lawyer and has no disciplinary history as an attorney, a California bar website says.
