The Dept. of Homeland Security, along with local law enforcement, raided a flea market this past weekend near Lawrence, Mass., arresting 40 people for selling counterfeit goods.
Since when is DHS suppose to be raiding flea markets? Aren’t they suppose to be tracking down terrorists? Oh wait, that’s what the Muslim Brotherhood organization considers Americans to be.
LAWRENCE — Police, joined by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, arrested 40 people for selling counterfeit items at two flea markets yesterday.
“This is an effort to support local, legitimate businesses who have complained of these individuals selling bogus merchandise,” Interim Lawrence Police Chief James Fitzpatrick said of the sweep last night.
“Over the course of several months, we targeted individual selling counterfeit goods and counterfeit intellectual property. Our investigation culminated with the arrests of over 40 people involved in selling these illicit items,” he said. “In recent history, I believe this is probably the largest raid in Massachusetts involving counterfeit goods.”
The raids began at about 11 a.m. yesterday and lasted through late afternoon. The raids took place at Don Flea Market at 85 Manchester St., and Lawrence Flea Market and Auction House at 468 N. Canal St, near the Falls Bridge, according to Fitzpatrick. The Police Department used several vans, some of them loaned by the Essex County Sheriff’s Department, to transport the defendants to the Lawrence Police Department, where they were being booked last night.
Fitzpatrick said he believed that most of those charged were from out of town.
“The Department of Homeland Security was the lead with Lawrence Police Department,” said Carrie Kimball-Monahan, spokeswoman for Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office.
“We were part of the investigation and we will prosecute,” she said.
Police referred all comments on the raid to federal authorities. Calls to the U.S. Attorney’s office and Homeland Security were not returned.
Fitzpatrick said federal agents planned to wait until tomorrow before issuing a press release about yesterday’s raids.
“There’s a great deal of evidence that needs to be cataloged,” Fitzpatrick said of the items seized. Some of the counterfeit items sold were fake lines of clothing, he said.
Maybe you need to be an illegal to sell counterfeit. I thought a flea market was mostly used stuff anyway.
These Liberal Democrats are a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID!!! 😉
Sounds like a Gestapo or an East German Stasi to me, very un-American but then look what we have in the white house thanks to ‘white liberals, etc.,’!!!!
Obama killed all of the terrorists with one hand…. so DHS has nothing better to do…
Welcome to the wild wild west….No leadership, no control, no concern. They were probably looking for guns!
If they try that in San Antonio, they better have buses lined up to take away the culprits.
The DHS had nothing else to do.
HSI investigates couterfit goods for Customs
The Enemy has infiltrated our Gov’t rewriting our laws that make us who we are, via the UN. They are hiring of course, but the wrong nationalities who are NOT even American, to make us fall to our knees and literally worship their system. This is what happens when you don’t go out and get educated to be informed and remain free. Now we are slaves to a system that rewards nobody’s. This will be very short lived and all the warnings you see that you ignore will be a bad nightmare truth once again because the naysayers think they are genius’ yet hold no merit to anyone but themselves. The next time you’re pulled over, think about it, could they really be UN enforcers????
absurd