BAD guys wear masks!
Posted on 09/09/2001 4:56:14 AM PDT by CDHart
Jefferson City News Tribune, SALEM, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remained closed Friday as a federal agents maintained an "enforcement operation" outside a home. Saturday, September 8, 2001
> >Law enforcement officials prevent a motorist from traveling down a section of Highway 68 just north of Salem on Friday. Click on photo to view greater detail.
>Federal, state authorities mass near Salem in standoff > SALEM, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remained closed Friday as federal agents maintained an "enforcement operation" outside a home.
> >Authorities have not said why agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and U.S. Customs have joined state and county law enforcers outside the home about eight miles north of Salem on Missouri 68 in south-central Missouri.
> >They arrived there about 2 p.m. Thursday to serve a federal search warrant, and when the resident refused to come outside, authorities began their stakeout, ATF spokesman Larry Scott said Friday. About 100 law enforcement officers, including a negotiator, were at the scene Friday night.
> >At least two homes located nearby were evacuated sometime after the stakeout began, Scott said.
> >Scott said multiple people were seen in the house at the beginning of the operation and one person came out Thursday. He could not identify the person who left the house, saying only that the person was not a child and that there were no children in the house.
> >Scott would not identify the homeowner. He also would not say whether authorities believed there could be weapons inside the home.
> >Mike and Mary Mrozowicz, who live in a nearby home that was not evacuated, said the house that agents surrounded was a ranch style home, and that there is also a mobile home on the property. They said a man in his 40s lives in the home with a girlfriend.
> >The Mrozowiczes said they've seen men wearing camouflage clothing and helmets hiding in the nearby woods with guns. They said they've seen agents coming and going over the last couple of days, but the agents weren't giving area residents any clues what they were doing there.
> >"They've been very, very tight-lipped about it." Mike Mrozowicz said.
> >Mary Mrozowicz said there were two large floodlights pointed at the home and that she has heard agents speaking over bullhorns throughout the day.
> >"I know I won't sleep very good tonight," she said.
> >Authorities had closed a three-mile stretch of the highway around the rural home for public safety, Scott said. Reporters were being kept roughly two miles from the scene.
> >Scott said the warrant was ordered out of the eastern district of Missouri, but he would not say why it was granted or what it involved. Jan Diltz, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis, said she could not discuss the warrant.
> >Meanwhile, Scott said the agents were prepared to stay there as long as it takes for the person or people inside to surrender.
> >"Number one is everyone's safety out here," Scott said. "And that is a big concern with everyone involved, and we'll try to resolve this in a peaceful conclusion."
> >The Dent County sheriff's and fire departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol were also assisting, Scott said.
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Carolyn
These LE messes seem to be the result of an over-staffed, over-equipped, over-justified, lazy bunch of uncreative gestapo. Remember the local sherrif who was so upset because he saw David Koresh at the grocery store all the time. He knew he could have peacefully arrested Koresh away from the house.
If you have to do it in secret, it means it's something you have no right to do.
That means, if they use them... THEY INTEND TO BURN THE PEOPLE ALIVE.
Seems logical to me.
BAD guys wear masks!
Amazing how none of these people ever leace home where they could be arrested with little or no fan fare!?!
BAD guys wear masks!
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