Kinsman, IL – FBI Raids Halal Slaughterhouse

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    Government representatives, one of whom said he was from the United States Department of Agricultures compliance unit were at 6260 Kinsman Road in Kinsman on Monday after a reported FBI raid on a meat processing facility.  (Liz Wilkinson Allen/Staff Photographer)Kinsman, IL – Federal agents conducted a raid Sunday afternoon at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois. The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.

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    Spokesman Ross Rice confirms agents were at 6260 Kinsman Road, in Kinsman, Illinois. The business is called First World Management. Rice would not say why agents were there but said nobody was taken into custody.

    The FBI said the raid began Sunday morning and ended in the late afternoon. They were at the plant about nine hours total.

    According to sources, the plant provides goat, beef and lamb meat which is prepared in the Halal way in accordance with Muslim custom.

    The government workers inside First World Management meat packing plant in Kinsman Monday wouldn’t say why they were there or why scores of FBI agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there Sunday.

    The trouble is the FBI isn’t saying much about what happened at this rural Grundy County plant. A spokesman confirms that the plant, which has a Muslim prayer room, was raided as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

    Several witnesses reported that the Grundy County Sheriff’s office was involved, as well, saying sheriff dept. vehicles were visible at the scene. The Sheriff’s department denies it was present.

    When asked if the raid had something to do with undocumented aliens, the person wouldn’t say. A neighbor suggested that undocumented immigrants live in a trailer behind the facility and work there.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the agency assisted in the raid, but had no further comment. According to sources, many of the FBI and ICE agents were armed.

    Several USDA criminal investigators were on site at the plant on Monday, but they would not comment on the situation.

    One man who was talking about the raid was Jim Cavaness. He’s a handyman who occasionally works at the plant where goats, sheep and cows are slaughtered. On Sunday, he witnessed the raid and says he was questioned by FBI agents.

    Cavaness says the FBI asked him if he had seen anything unusual at the plant. He says he’s never seen anything unusual, but, he says, judging by the amount of firepower on the scene, the FBI wasn’t just working an immigration case.

    “Way too much overkill for immigration,” Cavaness said.

    Neighbors who saw the raid on Sunday told CBS 2 it was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.

    Sources say during the raid, the driveway was filled with more than 50 government vehicles. There was a helicopter flying overhead and a command center set up. On top of it were government sharpshooters with rifles at the ready.

    George Jackson III is an attorney hired by one of the plant operators, Dr. Syed Hamid. Jackson and Dr. Hamid spoke briefly while on their way to a meeting with the federal prosecutor Monday.

    Jackson says it’s too early to say why there was such a huge show of force at the plant.

    “Obviously, it was more than what was needed here, but why they felt the need to come forward with that much manpower allegedly, it’s too early to say,” Jackson said.

    Jackson said federal agents confiscated the company’s computers, effectively shutting down the business. Dr. Hamid chose not to weigh in Monday.

    “I don’t want to comment at this point,” Dr. Hamid said.


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    Reality
    Reality
    14 years ago

    It is already about time they picked on someone else

    Big Masmid
    Big Masmid
    14 years ago

    It’s not surprising that the FBI is doing this, because they have to off-set the Rabashkin situation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What?? But I thought the only reason they raided Rubashkin’s was cause they are antisemitic and were picking on the Jews. You mean they’re actually enforcing the law? What a shanda!!!

    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein
    14 years ago

    Time for a Muslim Hechsher Tzeddek!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    No, wonder why they can’t find Bin Laden. They are too busy searching for goats and cows.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe this had nothing to do with immigration, but the Feds had a tip that sleeper-cell terrorists were there — maybe using jobs at the plant as their official daytime “cover” so people would think they are just minimum-wage dopes doing menial labor, while actually plotting some jihadi stuff. I would not put that past OBL.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    This obviously has nothing to do with immigration or illegal aliens. wake up ppl.

    Krewz
    Krewz
    14 years ago

    Ok, So it seems that because VIN News reported this it makes that the feds are trying to Off set the spot light on the Rubashkins,

    Do you even realize that there were 10’s of raids in between that were larger and weren’t reported here??

    Uh the Howard Industries raid “hauled” away 600 illegals!

    you dont know about it because the antisemitic government only pressed criminal charges at the JEW

    Harav Hagaon
    Harav Hagaon
    14 years ago

    The same people who want to stop Kosher shechita also want to stop halal slaughtering.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the same people who pused the government to go after Rubashkin are involved here.

    Don’t fool yourselves, the Rubashkin case was not about illegal immigrants. The illegal arrests etc. Were just a means of furthering PETA’s goals.

    More To It
    More To It
    14 years ago

    It sounds that they conducted a anti-terror raid. Perhaps the slaughter house was a cover for a bio lab or chemical lab. Of course this Muslim investigation is confidential. All Yiddish related ones are front page news…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    so obvious they were afraid for their own lives

    Annomous
    Annomous
    14 years ago

    If you google Kinsman Illinois, you may note that this so called slaugter house is only five miles away from a Nuclear Power Plant.

    LocalTech
    LocalTech
    14 years ago

    Lets think about this realistically. There is no profiling, no racism and no other BS you all speak of. There are Muslim that work there. When you take the fact that there were 100+ officers, and snipers, wouldn’t you think this might have something to do with Terrorist connections? Or maybe the fact that they process meat here. Meat that is eaten by people all over this country and others. Get over yourselves and your stupid “Race Card” tactics and think of our security. There are never that many agents unless national security is jeapordized. People from the surrounding areas aren’t going to take the FBI not commenting too much longer. Eventually the down home people of the surrounding area will make up their own minds and take action.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Just to clear up a few matters. They do not slaughter cows there, only sheep and goats. There were only 6 or so employees there so it was no immigration raid. The plantt is a very small operation and the people there do not mingal with the locals at all. There were 2 not one helicpters dangling mini guns present plus a spotter plane. The Santa fe railroad track that passes the plant, a major track was shut down for hours during the raid. There were snipers on top of the comand post motor home and among the 100 or so agents present many were in swat gear and armed with M16s. Lasalle power plant is about 5 miles away and visible from Kinsman. I know of this because I live between the power plant and Kinsman and know many people who were eyewitnesses.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    There are 3 nuke plants within a 28 mile radius of Kinsman.

    I says
    I says
    14 years ago

    lets see,,,nuke plants in area,,,,lasalle,braidwood and dresden and i think 3 more that are less than a days drive away