A police dog named “Pub” has helped federal agents execute two massive cash seizures at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — sniffing out nearly $75,000 in undeclared currency in the first three months of the year. Pub, a Belgian Malinois trained to find currency and firearms, alerted Customs and Border Protection agents to a stash of $44,432 in undeclared bills in February and another totaling $30,417 in March, the agency said.The pooch is responsible for a whopping 20% of the total undeclared cash discovered at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the first quarter of 2026. The first stash Pub discovered was bound for Qatar, and the second was en route to El Salvador.
Agents gave the suspects “multiple opportunities” to come clean before searching their belongings, but they refused. “Unreported and bulk currency smuggling, which has been shown to be proceeds of illicit activity, such as from narcotics and human smuggling, and fraud and other financial crimes that prey on our nation’s most vulnerable citizens,” CBP said in a release.
Travelers may fly with any amount of cash they wish, but sums over $10,000 must be declared to the US Treasury.
In many cases, agents give travelers a chance to fill out the necessary “FinCEN 105” form even after they’ve been caught.“During the first three months of 2026, CBP officers helped travelers complete FinCEN 105s that totaled nearly $3 million,” the agency said.
