Multi-Agency Anti-terrorism Task Force Conducts Investigation In French Quarter

May 29, 2008

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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.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, though, noted “it is not a matter that poses any danger to the public.”

Other members of the task force include the New Orleans Police Department, the Harbor Police, the Sheriff’s Offices in St. John, Plaquemines, St. Charles and St. Bernard parishes, the State Police, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Border Patrol and the United States Marshals Service.

Thorne declined to provide information about which of those agencies went with the FBI to the various French Quarter locations.

Gordon Cates, patrol agent with the New Orleans office of the Border Patrol, said his agency assisted the FBI in an investigation Wednesday morning in the French Quarter. He said two people were detained.

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