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.
their wasted souls and underpaid gov employee’s at best who will not hang around shoud we have to resort to a full blown revolution once bullets start to fly their not going to hang around they will either run the other way or join us
Why isn’t Homeland Security raiding these Muslim Terrorist Camps all around America INSTEAD of Flea Markets??? http://patdollard.com/2013/06/islamberg-new-york-the-muslim-only-town-where-jihadis-learn-guerilla-warfare-tactics/
ARDVARKS
Meh – the people working at these agencies….do they realize they are the equivalent of the orcs in the Hobbit? I mean, when people go see a movie, at what point do they realize they are the bad guys not the good guys? What a terrible thing to realize? I pity them I suppose. I bet they say they had good intentions and thought they were doing something right. And that’s a perfect example of the expression “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” I guess.
their boss is a muslum terrorist what do you expect
WTF!
DHS is the obummer version of the SS that Hitler used.
Much easier than actually securing our homeland!
BUT IT IS OKAY FOR CHINA AND TIWAN TO CHEAT AMERICAN GOODS BY STEALING THEIR DESIGNS REMANUFACURING THEM WITH CHEATP MATERIALS AND THEN SELLING THEM IN WALMART KMART TARGET DOLLAR STORE. THAT IS DUE TO THE CHEAP FREE TRADE ACT THAT RIPS AMERICAN COMPANIES OFF THAT IS THE REAL AMERICAN COMPANIES ON AMRICAN SOIL EMPLOYING REAL AMERICAN PEOPLE USING AMERICAN GOODS NOT GLOBAL ALL AMERICAN MADE 100% ON OUR SOIL OUR PEOPLE OUR GOODS MATRIALS METALS DIRT AND SWET “MADE ESSEMBLED MANUFACURED CAST MOLDED WEAVED PAINTED FIRED ALL AMERICAN “GOT THAT, ALL AMERIAN ONCE AND FOR ALL”
can you say “POLICE STATE”? well, beginning of, at any rate.