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Major police activity in downtown Boston; FBI teams converge on hotel in Back Bay; One arrest reported
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
BOSTON - A heavily armed FBI team searching for suspects in the terrorism attacks in New York and Washington stormed a Boston hotel Wednesday. One person was arrested, according to broadcast reports.
One person was taken out of the hotel in a van. WHDH-TV, who had a reporter in the hotel, said one person was arrested and one wounded.
``SWAT teams were all around holding machine guns,'' said witness R.J. Ryan of Boston, who joined hundreds of other onlookers outside the hotel.
``They put somebody in the van. Then they started moving everybody.''
Agents wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shields were seen bringing fiber-optic equipment into the Westin Hotel in the Back Bay section.
The FBI would not immediately confirm the arrest. An answering machine at the FBI office said they would be offering no comment on the investigation.
WHDH reported the officers were using the equipment to check under hotel room doors on hotel's 16th floor, quoting the reporter inside the hotel.
Three ambulances and a police car were stationed outside the hotel as a crowd of onlookers gathered there. Police officers returned repeatedly to a police truck outside to retrieve the fiber-optic equipment, which can be slipped under doors to see inside rooms, WHDH-TV reported.
Hundreds of onlookers crammed the streets by the hotel, as police officers tried to move them away from the hotel's entrance.
Meanwhile, police officers converged on the Park Inn at Chestnut Hill in Newton, a Boston suburb. Newton police officer Russ Adam said the FBI was conducting an investigation at the hotel. A clerk at the hotel confirmed the agents were there but said he could not say anything more.
Major police activity in downtown Boston; FBI teams converge on hotel in Back Bay; One arrest reported
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
BOSTON - A heavily armed FBI team searching for suspects in the terrorism attacks in New York and Washington stormed a Boston hotel Wednesday. One person was arrested, according to broadcast reports.
One person was taken out of the hotel in a van. WHDH-TV, who had a reporter in the hotel, said one person was arrested and one wounded.
``SWAT teams were all around holding machine guns,'' said witness R.J. Ryan of Boston, who joined hundreds of other onlookers outside the hotel.
``They put somebody in the van. Then they started moving everybody.''
Agents wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shields were seen bringing fiber-optic equipment into the Westin Hotel in the Back Bay section.
The FBI would not immediately confirm the arrest. An answering machine at the FBI office said they would be offering no comment on the investigation.
WHDH reported the officers were using the equipment to check under hotel room doors on hotel's 16th floor, quoting the reporter inside the hotel.
Three ambulances and a police car were stationed outside the hotel as a crowd of onlookers gathered there. Police officers returned repeatedly to a police truck outside to retrieve the fiber-optic equipment, which can be slipped under doors to see inside rooms, WHDH-TV reported.
Hundreds of onlookers crammed the streets by the hotel, as police officers tried to move them away from the hotel's entrance.
Meanwhile, police officers converged on the Park Inn at Chestnut Hill in Newton, a Boston suburb. Newton police officer Russ Adam said the FBI was conducting an investigation at the hotel. A clerk at the hotel confirmed the agents were there but said he could not say anything more.
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