Thread: Palm Beach immigration attorney targeted in federal raid

Palm Beach County immigration attorney targeted in federal raids

By Julius Whigham II and Alexandra Seltzer, The Palm Beach Post

6:31 a.m. EDT, May 27, 2011
Immigration attorney Levy Garcia-Crespo has been arrested for fraud, and agents are waiting to execute a search warrant at his office, according to a Homeland Security Investigations agent who did not want to be identified.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other law enforcement authorities earlier conducted raids at his office and at his home in the 1400 block of Keller Road in Lake Clarke Shores.

Garcia-Crespo, 34, works at Palm Way Professional Center in the 3600 block of Forest Hill Boulevard in suburban West Palm Beach.

He is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court Friday morning, ICE spokeswoman Dani Bennett said in a statement.

According to neighbors of the home on Keller Road, ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents were at the home from about 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. Thursday taking out boxes and other items.

Neighbors, who did not want to be identified, said they found it odd that a number of expensive cars, including Lamborghinis, Range Rovers and Mercedes, were often parked in front of the home.

A woman in a Mercedes, who neighbors identified as Garcia-Crespo's wife, drove by the home several times today. She said she did not know why he was being arrested and then declined to comment.


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