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Report: NOAA forced way into auction |
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Federal fishery agents — cited in an Inspector General's report for
repeatedly "blurring" the line between their administrative law
enforcement work and criminal orientation — forced their way into the
Gloucester Seafood Display Auction after hours and without
authorization in 2006, when the agency was building a case against the
waterfront business.
A Gloucester Police report traces how an NOAA agent heading a squad sought out and found an unlocked rear door, opened it and then let the squad in the front door. The agent was part of an NOAA team attempting to assemble evidence for a major case aimed at shutting the auction down. Word of the 2006 police report surfaced this week after Scott Zinser, inspector general of the federal Department of Commerce, issued a separate report off an investigation spurred largely by advocates for the auction about alleged wrongful policing by NOAA agents. |
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