Authorities executed search warrants relating to Faisal Shahzad's finances.
[Updated at 1:05 p.m.] A federal law enforcement tells Susan Candiotti that the FBI has also conducted search warrants related to the ongoing Times Square investigation at two locations on Eastern Long Island in Suffolk County, NY.
Suffolk County Police spokesman Tim Motz told CNN that officers from that department are assisting the FBI in the execution of these warrants. There have been no arrests.
[Updated at 12:19 p.m.] A third person has been arrested on immigration charges in Thursday's raids in the Northeast, a U.S. official told CNN.
[Updated at 12:08 p.m.] Prompt Printing, a printing shop in Camden, New Jersey, is among the targets of Thursday's raids by federal agents stemming from the investigation into this month's failed car bombing in Times Square, a federal law enforcement source said.
A federal source also says a home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey was raided and that it is believed to be the home of the print shop's owner.
[Updated at 11:41 a.m.] A source close to the investigation says the raids carried out this morning were focused on a system of “cash couriers” who bring money into the United States from overseas. Some of that money is thought to be made available to finance operations like the abortive Times Square attack. The source says the warrants for Thursday’s raids came as a result of the investigation into the Times Square incident, but it has not been determined conclusively if the alleged courier system under investigation is tied to that plot.
The source says two individuals have been under surveillance at least since Wednesday, but could not confirm that they were the individuals arrested today. The source says there is no direct evidence linking those under surveillance to the courier system, but they are being investigated for possible links. The source adds that Faisal Shahzad continues to provide information to investigators. [Updated at 11:23 a.m.] 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.
[Updated at 10:35 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that the two people taken into custody for alleged immigration violations have no direct bearing on the Times Square investigation. The arrests are described as "collateral.”
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.
[Updated at 10:27 a.m.] Lt. Phillip Harrington of the Brookline Police Department confirmed to CNN that local police are assisting the FBI conduct a search warrant at a Mobile gas station on Harvard Street in Brookline.
[Updated at 10:00 a.m.] CNN affiliate WHDH in Boston is reporting search warrants were executed at a gas station in Brookline, Massachusetts and a home in Watertown, Massachusetts in connection with the Times Square attempted bombing earlier this month.
[Updated at 9:33 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that search warrants are being executed in Boston, New York, and New Jersey.
“We can confirm that search warrants have been executed in several locations in the Northeast in connection with the investigation into the attempted Time Square bombing," a Justice Department official told CNN. "Two individuals encountered during the searches were taken into federal custody for alleged immigration violations.
"At this time we can provide no further details as the investigation is ongoing. These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States.”
[Posted at 9:21 a.m.] Investigators have executed search warrants in several places in the Northeast and detained two people in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing probe, Boston FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said Thursday.
"They do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or any plot against the United States," Marcinkiewicz said.
She said two people have been taken into custody for "alleged immigration violations."
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We did not hear any thing from Islamic Society of America about it. Interesting?????
ALLAH AKHBAR...........BOOM!!!!
If this guy was on the no fly list, then they already knew something about him wasn't right. To be on that list isn't by your name alone so if you watched them, then flagged for that list, then continue to watch or monitor and it could have been prevented. The man hours you are putting in after the fact would be no different than if they were put in before the fact. With terrorists, you can't play by the book bc they do not, 9-11 ring a bell. Play hard ball like they do and things will stop...
Herelegally,
That is what you read into what I said. Continue your liberal policies of immigration and handouts and see where we end up. I have defended this nation while serving in the military and will speak my mind when I feel that we as a nation are being threatened. It's called freedom of speech.
I got to say this....this pakistani idiot has certainly made life a lot more difficult for his fellow pakistanis, an overwhelming majority of whom have absolutely no terroristic leanings and are people who take care of their families and stay out of any kind of trouble. Clearly, what the majority have to do is to aggressively identify these bad apples in their midst, and prevent any such occurrence from ever happening again....else the public opinion will truly turn against the whole community and that will be a strategic problem for everyone around.
Right, which doesnt cover threats as the supreme court has ruled.
If they are illegal how do they get handouts from the government? The Nazi's belived all jews should be illiminated for many of the reason you listed. Do you believt eh same as they did?
Deport all Christians and Jews. Christianity spreads death and destruction. Judaism preaches the slavery and killing of all non-Jews. Deport all these people back from where they came from. America belongs to the Native Americans.
Christianity is the worst thing to happen to America.
BTW...Mexicans don't strap bombs on themselves and blow up busloads of children thinking they'll go to heaven.. MOSELMS DO!i
The suspense is killing me!!! It's like Jack Bauer in real life, right before our very eyes!!!
The mere existence of Muslims will threaten the fundamntal freedom of any modern society.There is another they are waging –by multiplying in numbers so that they think they can take over the world.
I Think therefore I'm liberal
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
I stole this from 'where is common sense' because it is absolutely true and critical that everyone reads this: Wake up America 911 was not an accident. Time Square was not a dream and the next one might be a nighmare. Id like to see the press start to cover in detail the crimes commited in Mexico on a daily basis and then maybe the American people can make informed decisions about leaving the gate open.
"The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords." (Hosea 13:16 NLT)
The mere existence of Christians will threaten the fundamntal freedom of any modern society.There is another they are waging –by multiplying in numbers so that they think they can take over the world.