Feds raid French Quarter
FBI raids hit French Quarter
Anti-terror task force leads ‘ongoing’ probe
Thursday, May 29, 2008
By Leslie Williams
The Federal Bureau of Investigation — as part of a multi-agency anti-terrorism task force that includes the IRS — went to “multiple locations” in the French Quarter on Wednesday morning “in furtherance of an ongoing criminal investigation,” said FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne.
No one was arrested Wednesday morning, said Thorne, who declined to provide information about whether anyone had been detained or records had been seized. Thorne further declined to detail the reason an anti-terrorism task force conducted the raids, which she said started at about 9 a.m.
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