There were over 78-hundred criminal forfeitures to Minnesota law enforcement agencies in 2017, up from about seven thousand the year before, totaling just over seven million dollars. The state auditor’s office reports vehicles accounted for 61 percent of property seized, cash 24 percent and firearms 13 percent. The State Patrol by a large margin gathered the biggest number of forfeitures, followed by the D-N-R, Dakota County Drug Task Force and the Rochester Police Department. D-W-I and controlled-substance violations accounted for almost nine out of 10 criminal forfeitures in Minnesota last year.