ARMED FEDERAL AGENTS ENTER WAREHOUSE IN PUERTO RICO TO SEIZE HOARDED ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT

https://theintercept.com ^ | January 10 2018 | Kate Aronoff

[Enterprise]

ON SATURDAY, A day after becoming aware of a massive store of rebuilding materials being held by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the U.S. federal government — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with their security detail — entered a Palo Seco warehouse owned by the public utility to claim and distribute the equipment, according to a spokesperson for the Corps.

Rumors of a tense standoff had been circulating on the island, but the encounter was confirmed to The Intercept in a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Asked if the federal officers were armed when they entered the warehouse, USACE spokesperson Luciano Vera said they were indeed accompanied by security detail and quickly began distributing the material after seizing it. Vera declined to say whether there was a confrontation at the entrance, saying only that PREPA officials ultimately toured the warehouse along with the feds:

[Enterprise]

Half the population is still without power, and desperately needed equipment is being hoarded. Hey, what do you expect when a s...hole is being run by Democrats.

[gaijin]

Sounds vaguely like what Mohammed Farrah Aideed was doing in Mogadishu...!

[left that other site]

well well well.

[Gay State Conservative]

IBTF

[Enterprise]

Crooks and despots gotta do what they gotta do.

I hope President Trump goes ballistic about this.

[bkopto]

I’ll bet that Rat mayor of San Juan is involved in this.

[blueunicorn6]

We are going to have to start hanging thieves.

There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of prison.

[Delta 21]

The tweets will be awesome.

[SpaceBar]

Puerto Rico is a shithole.

[Enterprise]

Time to put Puerto Rico under Martial Law.

[Enterprise]

A grand jury needs to be impaneled at this point.

[blueunicorn6]

Playing politics with peoples lives.

Democrats.

There ought to be a bounty on them.

[Enterprise]

Remember when President Trump was accused of not caring and he wasn’t doing anything? I await his tweets with gleeful anticipation!

[txhurl]

If crimes are to be forever unpunishable, stop calling them crimes. Call them faux pas or something.

[Enterprise]

Democrats doing what they do best. Thriving off the suffering of the people.

[blueunicorn6]

This is exactly the kind of shirt that has been going on in Venezuela.

[Enterprise]

Ditto - and it’s being run by s...heads!

[Enterprise]

I would volunteer, and I work cheap.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Typical corruption of a third world shi+hole.

[Enterprise]

We suspected it, but now here’s the smoking gun!