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Search warrants executed in Times Square probe
By: cnn.comPosted On: 05/13/2010 2:45 P
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The search warrants being executed in the Northeast on Thursday are related to the probe of Faisal Shahzad's financing, a federal law enforcement source said.
The search warrants being executed in the Northeast on Thursday are related to the probe of Faisal Shahzad's financing, a federal law enforcement source said.
The source said the locations may have been involved in transferring money to Shahzad, the suspect in the recent botched Times Square car bombing.
However, there is no specific information to indicate any of the individuals at these locations knew about the Times Square bombing plot, the source said.
Investigators were searching locations in and around Boston, Massachusetts, and in New York and New Jersey, a federal law enforcement source said.
Gail Marcinkiewicz, an FBI spokeswoman in Boston, said the searches "do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or any plot against the United States."
The Justice Department released a statement saying that Thursday's searches "are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing."
During the searches, officials detained two people for "alleged immigration violations," Marcinkiewicz said. The two have no direct connection to the Times Square bombing investigation, and their arrests were considered "collateral," a second federal law enforcement source said.
The two are from Pakistan, according to a U.S. official. One is a so-called "visa overstay." The other was in the process of being removed from the United States, but had not yet been ordered removed, as he was attempting to adjust his status so that he could stay.
Both were picked up in Massachusetts, the official said, but he did not have more specifics. Both are being processed in Boston, the official said.
One of the searches unfolded in Brookline, Massachusetts, where police were helping the FBI search a Mobil gas station on Harvard Street, said Lt. Philip Harrington of the Brookline Police Department.
Video from CNN affiliate WHDH-TV of Boston showed apparent law-enforcement officers at the gas station. They were examining a parked gray four-door sedan, its two front doors and trunk open.
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