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.
Who knows what might happen if they went after the muslims in this country who have proven time and again that they cant be trusted anymore then a rabid dog
been calling it amerika for some time now,, sad country we have become,,
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is,nt it mind boggling I,think all of gov is communists including high up military personal they had 50 years to accomplish this since the sixties
DHS, why don’t you go after the terrorists that have illegally crossed our borders
Homeland Security has a boss, and he has a boss. Obama is where the buck stops. Someone does not want DHS to be a their desks, checking the backgrounds of incoming refugees. Or watching to make sure terrorist are not coming in with the other illegals across the boarders. Why is Obama stopping people from doing their jobs??? First it was the boarder patrols, then the police telling them not to arrest them but take them to a bus stop or church. No deporting! Now the DHS is a flea markets. WHO IS WATCHING THE BOARDERS!!!
wake ppl ur house mite be next.
wake up
Our tax money at work;(
Remington Stark.
If you still think there’s any difference between the two parties, you’re a bit naïve. Once the lip service is over and their elected in the office, they’re all the same.
But kudos to your parents for giving you a really cool name.