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Pic: Writer and Journalist Elvis Mitchell and Rev Al Sharpton. HBO's The Black List - Screening. Former New York Times movie critic Elvis Mitchell was stopped by a border patrol with $12,000 in cash in a cigar box on April 27, 2008 when his taxi crossed into his hometown of Detroit as he returned from a documentary film festival in Toronto. A search of Mitchell's belongings uncovered the box full of money along with [15] Cuban cigars, Canada's Windsor Star reports. Mitchell - who's now busy promoting The Black List, the HBO documentary about race he co-produced with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders - told authorities the money was an accumulation of ATM withdrawals over the past year.. Philadelphia, PA - 14.08.08