Man, oh man......I'm sorry to hear that. Is your source reliable?
I can tell you this much. Every now and then someone'll come up, ask me about my bike and then start with the hogwash. "They confiscate these in the next town over.." Garbage like that. (They don't seem to realize that I can figure out that they're just making this stuff up.)
Is it possible that this is what's happening to you?