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Feds Search Galls On Palumbo Drive
A Lexington business that supplies military and police equipment worldwide was raided Wednesday by federal authorities, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C. said.
Several agencies executed a federal search warrant at Galls Inc. on Palumbo Drive in southeast Lexington, U.S. Attorney's office spokesman Channing Phillips said. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, criminal investigators from the Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security and agents from the Defense Department Criminal Investigative Service were serving a search warrant at the business, according to Dean Boyd, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The three agencies typically investigate cases involving unauthorized exports.
Phillips declined to say what federal officers were looking for, saying the search warrant was sealed. Several people wearing blue shirts and carrying boxes and bags from the business loaded them into vehicles and left late Wednesday afternoon. A spokeswoman for Galls said the company is cooperating with the investigation. "Galls was contacted today by agents of the Department of Commerce ... in connection with its record keeping and documentation of certain export sales," Kristine Grow, a Galls spokeswoman in Philadelphia, said Wednesday. She would not specify what type of export was in question.
Grow said the warrant also covered a nearby distribution center in north Lexington. Galls is the world's largest mail-order supplier of uniforms and equipment to public safety professionals, according to its Web site.
Feds Search Galls On Palumbo Drive
A Lexington business that supplies military and police equipment worldwide was raided Wednesday by federal authorities, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C. said.
Several agencies executed a federal search warrant at Galls Inc. on Palumbo Drive in southeast Lexington, U.S. Attorney's office spokesman Channing Phillips said. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, criminal investigators from the Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security and agents from the Defense Department Criminal Investigative Service were serving a search warrant at the business, according to Dean Boyd, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The three agencies typically investigate cases involving unauthorized exports.
Phillips declined to say what federal officers were looking for, saying the search warrant was sealed. Several people wearing blue shirts and carrying boxes and bags from the business loaded them into vehicles and left late Wednesday afternoon. A spokeswoman for Galls said the company is cooperating with the investigation. "Galls was contacted today by agents of the Department of Commerce ... in connection with its record keeping and documentation of certain export sales," Kristine Grow, a Galls spokeswoman in Philadelphia, said Wednesday. She would not specify what type of export was in question.
Grow said the warrant also covered a nearby distribution center in north Lexington. Galls is the world's largest mail-order supplier of uniforms and equipment to public safety professionals, according to its Web site.
