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Agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI were at Agiltron on Presidential Way in Woburn.
HSI, ICE & FBI: an alphabet soup of federal authorities were on-scene today at Agiltron, Inc., a fiber optics company headquartered at 15 Presidential Way in Woburn. According to ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein, "Federal law enforcement, along with our state and local partners, are executing a federal search warrant at a business in Woburn." Feinstein did not say specifically that Agiltron was the focus of the investigation but on-scene reporting confirmed agents were going in and out of that company's building today. Members of the Woburn Police Department were also on-scene. Feinstein could not comment on the record about the purpose of the investigation but said agents would be on-scene through the day. A source told Woburn Patch the …
Woburn Police, Homeland Security and FBI activity still underway at Agiltron.
Update 11:50 a.m. WBZ-TV is reporting that sources tell them the Agiltron raid in Woburn is about the export of technology, not an immigration raid. Woburn Patch editor Richard Hosford says Woburn Police cars and unmarked cars are still outside the building that houses Agiltron — the same building that houses Lazer Craze, where police activity was seen outside earlier this morning. An official with a "Police/HSI" jacket was seen outside. HSI refers to Homeland Security Investigations, part of ICE, U.S. Customs & Immigration Enforcement. Update 11:24 a.m. Latest reports say that U.S. immigration officials are on-scene at a company called Agiltron, on Presidential Way. Woburn Patch editor Richard Hosford is now on-scene and will be …
Aron Levy
12:23 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Curious. Maybe they're having a big laser tag party? Because that's what I would do.   more ›