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.
What items?
You keep voting democrat and there won’t be a country
Murka.
And bill clinton iincreased their funding and Obama funded and expanded DHS and nnow the secret service is part of DHS. What is your point.
Most counterfeit goods are made overseas making customs enforcement legit and thus DHS. job whipping up hysteria over nothing. This is not a case of big bad federal government takin anything.
Wait… it is bad to go where the crimes are being committed? DHS is the department under which Customs and Border Protection fall. Sounds appropriate.
Agreed, and if they were selling counterfeit copies of your trademarked product, i am sure you would be in complete agreement with what they are doing, that is their job!
Ok. Let me reclarify. Obama has now what is called executive actions. Setting pace to catch Franklin D. No matter how you disguise it. It’s still considered executive orders Daniel Keating
That is their job, if it was a counterfeit of your trademark product you would be screaming that they weren’t doing enough
I guess all cops aren’t loved by conservatives after all.
What else are they to do since there not guarding our borders or stopping muslim terrorists