In August, the federal authorities announced that they had broken up an international crime ring based in Minnesota that stole cell phones in the United States and resold them in China and the Middle East. The "Mustafa Organization" allegedly earned at least $4 million buying and selling stolen or fraudulently obtained cell phones through its chain of mobile phone stores.

This week, the U.S. Secret Service posted a public notice of how the feds are getting some of that money back through forfeiture. The list gives some sense of the scale of this bust: Hundreds of cell phones, as well as computers, jewelry, cash, gold coins, eight bank accounts and seven cars seized in simultaneous Aug. 12 raids in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Columbia Heights, Apple Valley, Rosemount, Golden Valley, Savage, Forest Lake and Burnsville. The biggest value item? A 2013 Lexus RX350, valued at $37,575, seized from Naser Mustafa in Forest Lake. The cheapest? A Samsung flip phone, valued at $7. The 1,222 forfeitures add up to about $484,000.

The deadline for filing a claim for any of the property is Dec. 8.

Above: The Boost Mobile store on East Lake Street in Minneapolis was closed about an hour before the Aug. 12 news conference announcing the federal bust. Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler