WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – Two neighborhoods, two armed FBI raids.<\/p>\n
It all went down in Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n
By the afternoon, the scene had quieted down, but earlier in the day, neighbors described a very different picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At around noon on Friday, people say law enforcement flooded an area along Columbia Avenue, when the commotion caught one resident’s attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I heard what sounded like a bullhorn,” said Julie Fedon. “And I looked out the window up that way, and I saw the agents, it looked like they had FBI on their vests.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The situation quickly made her uneasy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was a little freaked out, I’m gonna be honest with you,” Fedon said. “After that, I like stepped away from the window and I locked my doors.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I stayed inside after that,” she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neighbors say multiple people came out of the Columbia Avenue residence during the response, including two women and one young man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An FBI spokesperson says agents were conducting court authorized law enforcement activity, but wouldn’t say what kind of activity.<\/p>\n
About a half-mile away, over on 3rd Street, a similar scene played out.<\/p>\n
“I was in my house, and all of a sudden I heard this loud boom,” said Jerry Weed. “I thought maybe there was an accident.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weed lives near 3rd Street. When he went to check, he says the street was already shut down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I see the police and FBI had the road shut down. And I’m just wondering what the heck is going on,” Weed said. “This is normally a quiet area. You don’t see this every day. So to see this, it was a little bit of a shock.”<\/p>\n
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Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n
The FBI has not said why it raided the two homes or if there were any arrests.<\/p>\n
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