As a result of breaking the law forfeiture is used in drug law enforcement “it reduces the financial incentive to reap the often enormous profits that are involved in drug trafficking and disrupts a drug trafficking organization by seizing any vehicles, boats, planes, or property used to transport or produce illicit drugs” (Levinthal, 2012. pg. 127). Federal forfeiture has to do with action brought as a part of the criminal prosecution of a defendant. The purpose of forfeitures is to interfere with criminal activity. The types of forfeitures are criminal and civil. In the involvement of criminal forfeitures as the result of a criminal prosecution action is brought up against the person and property obtained illegally through the profit derived
