ALORTON -- A slew of federal agents and an Illinois State Police canine dog searched inside and outside of the mayor's house Thursday without saying a word to reporters about what they were looking for or whether they found what they were looking for.
About noon, after the agents had been searching for a couple of hours, Mayor Randy McCallum came to his white framed house with green trimming at 9 S. 42nd St. He said the agents called him to come to the house. The agents told him that they were taking some documents and his guns, McCallum said. And, the mayor said he was fine with that.
McCallum said FBI agents told him they were searching his house and the Village Hall on Thursday for village documents, particularly tax increment financing records.
When he was asked whether the investigation pertained to Harry Halter, the Alorton public safety director who recently was charged with official misconduct, McCallum said he didn't know. Asked whether the agents were looking for something pertaining to other village officials, McCallum said he was only told that the agents were looking for TIF documents.
McCallum said the agents paid him a surprise visit at the Village Hall building at 10 a.m. with a search warrant for the building. He said he let them search his home because he doesn't have anything to hide. So, two searches were going on at the same time. The search at Village Hall continued past 5:30 p.m. And, the agents also searched the gray Mercedes Benz that McCallum was driving before they let him drive off. The agents carried two safes from the building.
"I gave them free access to everything," the mayor said.
He said the agents told him, when he arrived at his home, that they were taking his guns and some documents from his home. McCallum said he was fine with that.
McCallum said he is "not in trouble. I'm clean as a whistle."
At least eight police vehicles sat in McCallum's back yard and along the front and side of the house as federal agents with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division, and a special agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury worked for hours inside of McCallum's residence and outside, too.
The agents at the scene declined to comment. Brad Ware, a community outreach specialist and the media representative for the FBI, said he could not comment about why the agents were conducting the raid.
Illinois State Police canine dog Kodiak and his trainer, J. Ramert, searched in and out of the house. Agents put markers on the items they were checking. They appeared to be numbers.
A steady stream of passers-by drove by the home to watch the agents.
Source: http://www.bnd.com/2012/01/06/2004842/fbi-agents-search-alorton-mayors.html
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