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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I am talking about Islamic societies following Koranic verses literally and cutting off peoples hands for stealing, beheading people, lashing people with whips for minor infractions etc.
Something that is UNHEARD of in Christian societies, regardless of what is present in the Bible.
So bottomline, quoting biblical passages is fine but Christian societies have gone well beyond them and don't follow any violent prescriptions within.....in the 21st century.
Islamists are caught in a time-warp and still indulge in medieval and barbaric practices (like beheading and cutting off hands, putting out eyes etc) and even more egregiously, that is considered as fully acceptable, even from educated members of the community.
what happened in the name of religion in Ireland......so people lets not go there....there are good and bad people in all religions.We should be smart and not let the bad people dictate.I been reading a lot of bad comments about Pakistan.Dont you read the papers what kinda sacrifice Pakistani peoples are making.Not a day go by without the terrorist act in which innocent peoples loosing their lives....So dont be ignorant.
More and more of these guys are in this country on education and work visas, and we give them freely for them to inflict terror on our country. Funny thing is, the ones that actually come here to work to provide a better life for themselves ... can't get the work visas and are now (in Arizona) legally profiled by authorities. This is backwards ... we can't legally profile terrorists as being Muslim, and moreover, we sponser their terrorism by handing out these visas. But we can legally profile hispanics, who for the most part are coming here to actually work, and they can't get a work visa for anything. Backwards.
Not all illegals in the school system start in elementary school idiot. Some start in high school due to their age when entering the country illegal. We spend more on educating non-english speaking students. Your arguement doesn't hold water like much of the "great liberal thinkers" of our time.
Noticed that you didn't say anything about the medical arguement.
As longs as you have muslims who will die for their so called crazy INVISIBLE Allah. Boy does this god have them f$$king confused, you might as well the little crazys in your head telling you jump off a bridge.
For god sake they can even take a joke about their stupid invisible Allah without going back and trying to kill you for it.
I personally think that if you do not assimilate in becoming a citizen of the country then you should automatically be deported.
At the pace that we're turning on one another, we won't need the terrorists to ruin America.
The world will be a better place when we ban Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Not all illegals in the school system start in elementary school idiot. Some start in high school due to their age when entering the country illegal. We spend more on educating non-english speaking students. Your arguement doesn't hold water like much of the "great liberal thinkers" of our time.
Noticed that you didn't say anything about the medical arguement.
Being White and looking at the views from all corners..Simple fix to the bombing and threats is for AMERICA to simply leave Middle East...Rednecks and Republicans cannot understand why there is these activity going on. Simple answer, they dont want American occupation in there land. So, as long as we are supressing them, this crap will go on and on...99% of people in America dont know what is going on in Middle East..so they just basiclly take what the media feeds their small minds....I.E..most of the people in this Forum....
I need to see your research that shows taxpayers pay more where illegals are involved until then you have no argument.
"The world will be a better place when we ban Christianity, Judaism and Islam."
Agreed Jamie
The ignorance on this subject, and subsequent posting, is astounding and it doesn't help your case much when your grammar and spelling don't exceed that of a third grader if that. If your going to have any credibility you might want to get an education first of all (which means you would likely not be throwing up this trash on here in the first place) and then through that education hopefully you will be able to write a little more logically and properly.
Just as a note...the correct spelling of the "you are" contraction is you're....not your.....so next time you are ranting about education, you may want to show that you have one....
just a though....
By the way....this entire discourse is a joke. Illegal immigration HAS NOTHING to do with this case.....either does radical islam.....if this guy was a white baptist would we be talking about killing all baptists or deporting all baptists......why didn't we deport all christians after Oklahoma city? Wake up you idiots.
Jesus, not again. When will this EVER stop.
HK, when we stop invading their countries.
Islam is the superior religion. All the muslims are God's creation. I love Islam and I also love muslims. God Bless America. I do hear Christians priests are child molester and Jews are cruel. NO NO NO NO. People wake up. Violence, robbers, thieves, liar, dishonest, terrorists, dirty people and bad people exist anywhere. SO SHUT THE HELL UP AND LEARN TO RESPECT HUMAN BEING, DOEST NOT MATTE LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, MUSLIMS OR PAKISTANI, CHRISTIANS OR JEWISH.
PUNISH THE BAD GUYS.