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.
Ernest it was conceived in the Richard Nixon presidency Jimmy Carter refined and Ronald Reagan gave it teeth.
She is a bad joke!
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Do you really think you could buy a “new” authentic name brand hand bag at a flea mkt ? If so tell me where.
Regardless of who did what, NSA would be better served rooting out the subversives and ISIS wannabes infesting the nation!
Every single politician that opposed the creation of DHS said this would happen. It wasn’t about finding terrorist…it’s just another domestic police agency on the federal level. All the violent crime out there, illegal Mexican drug gangs taking over neighborhoods in cities and they’re busting people selling knockoff clothing.
I herd a lot of blaming going around so im gonna try to clear it up for everyone this is the effect of americans being to scared and self hating to stand against authority figures like dhs tsa state police local police sheriff’s fbi cia irs and the list is ever growing to do anything to put and end to it so please stop the blame game its our fault this country has fallen
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Good thing DHS was there to protect us against those t-shirt selling terrorists! What a load of c**p!!!
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