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.
Lol at some of these comments…. it’s the illegals and goat f*kk*rs that are doing the selling and smuggling of counterfeit merchandise. Follow the money trail and it will uncover how they smuggled. If they can get these items in our country, imagine what else may be coming into our country.
I’m American Indian and the white people were welcomed here. They soon overran the country but that is a mute point now.
Good mornink!
DHS … A Tradition of … IGNORANCE …
They raid fle markets and steal pot plants there doing eveything but there job how are they still being funded they couldn’t even find the two escaped inmates every body in the world was looking for them but them I say we get rid of home land security defund them there useless for keeping us safe
wonder if they found anything they ilked!
mean while in obozos government control everything will be taking away from ya very soon
It registers in the millions and millions of people that muslims and their religion of destruction, death and hate are an abomination and must be destroyed. They have tried to destroy anyone not of their religion from their beginning. Tell you lies.. that is what muslims do…LIE, BEHEAD, RAPE, MURDER, BURN, THROW GAYS OFF BUILDING, STONE PEOPLE, BURN PEOPLE ALIVE AND ON AND ONE. Want them all gone from USA and never to return!
good lord, this is a flea market, not some expensive merchandise gouger…..(for which the dhs still has no business overseeing) guess it’s easier to bust innocent people than drug traffickers…….this is what our United States is coming to
time to call a halt to the DHS