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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Jungle has Lions and other predators to control animal population. For people we have religions.
How many hours would George Washington and Alexander Hamilton be "detained" before being read their Miranda rights because they were the first terrorists/freedom fighters (it is so subjective; it depends whose side you are on–remember, George H. W. Bush gave Osama, Saddam, Noriega and countless others money, technology and, of course, weapons.
Paul.....quoting passages from the bible is fine but the key here is that not a single person ever follows the courses prescribed by the violent passages within. A diametrically different reaction from the primitive islamists who take the koranic prescriptions literally and even in the 21st century, indulging in whippings, cutting off hands, beheading etc.....something unheard of in Christian societies.
Does that make any sense to you ?
No, I'm no Nazi nor do I believe in their idealology. How do they get handouts? Tax payers and health insurance carriers pay for all of the medical care that goes unpaid for when illegals use our hospital system. Costs go up for legal citizens because illegals can't go to a primary care doctor. Our school systems spend more to educate non-english speaking students than students who have the command of the english language. Those are handouts. Two examples by which illegals receive handouts in the US.
Deport followers of Middle Eastern religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) back to the Middle East.
Watch it, LA City Counsel will boycott NY City for racial profiling! Ray, anybody can strap a bomb to themselves...take a look at history and you will see many nationalities & religious zealots have done it when they felt cornered. Don't confuse stupidity and bigotry...wait, those are both the same thing! How about don’t confuse right from wrong!!
I'm a canadian that lived in the U.S. for 4 years. You are so racist! you preach aboutrbeing a land of equal rights and opportunity. Yet in the "Free" world you are probably one of the most prejudice people I have encounter. Who are you to preach to other country by invading them? Look in your own backyard, and worry about cleaning your own house before imposing your will and ideas to other nations.
I am not a christian...but In my life in 3 countries I never seen they doing anything like muslims do–beheading ,blowing up and keeping woman for child making
Just a question......was Timothy Mcweigh muslim?
Art, we justified Slavery because of the Bible until recently. It wasn't long ago. We justified the fact that women couldn't vote in America because of the Bible. We still justify crimes under the guise of religion.
What "Koranic" verse did Shahzad infer? You making things up?
Deport followers of Middle Eastern religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) back to the Middle East. Please.
If your statement was true HEYWASHERELEGALLY, you wouldn't identify yourself with a pre-determined ideology, you would have your own. What happened to thinking on your own about what is right instead of what is conservative or liberal?
"I think therefore I'm liberal."
What worries the rest of us is your flawed thinking process. Conservatives think too. We just think about protecting our homeland and stopping government handouts instead of the programs that you spew that will destroy our nation.
Mike I thought you wanted them to learn English. So you created that cost. And no-one is born knowing English so are you ok with young illegals learning English as it costs the same to educate elementary school children?
You may not be a Nazi but you preach genocide. While your at it nuke Miami because those darn Cuban have set up a nice wealth community for themselves. Oh, wait, their here legally.
All religions of Abraham are violent. "God" that spoke to all these prophets was actually Satan, who wanted to divide and conquer.
"You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their father's wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation" (Exodus 20:4-5 NAB)