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.
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I feel like I’m in $#%&!@* Germany
Border search authority is what gives DHS the ability to search you when you travel and the statute that spell that out (meaning they have been deemed to be cons$#%&!@*utional) only gives that authority to travelers and goods that cross our borders. They’ve been around a lot longer than the Patriot Act.
Also, this is a function of US Customs, which used to be under the Dept of Treasury and was put under DHS when it was established. Most of the INS moved under DHS as well.Trust me when I tell you that the people who work there would much rather be keeping illegals out of the country and preventing a terrorist attack but the weak immigration regulations that came over from the DOJ and our liberal administration won’t allow it.
DHS was and is an agency that was put together with spit and glue as a PR campaign after 9/11 in an attempt to make it appear to the average citizen that our country was safer, not to actually make it safer.
Notice they rarely catch terrorists ? The FBI usually has to do the heavy lifting….
Look at the Muslim who runs that group and you have your answer.
Why is that more important than arresting individuals coming into the country illegally???
you can thank Obama for all of it
Maybe the Dems who were affected will wake up.
This is how you are losing you right to life liberty and persuit to happiness too much big government