Homeland Security Agents Raid Duggar Home

[amberlyrose]

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) confirms to KNWA that agents raided the Duggars’ Tontitown, Arkansas home last week.



An HSI spokesperson said, “ HSI was present there [Duggar home] pursuant to an on-going federal criminal investigation.”

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There's not a lot of substance in the article, but I'm sure more will start coming out soon. I'm curious as to why it's HSI, though. 

[mcsangel2]

I read it had something to do with Josh and Anna (they live on the property now) and an 11 year old that lives with them as a mother's helper. Something in relation to trafficking since she was moved across state lines.

[pixy0stix]

Huh. I haven't thought about the Duggars in a while.

[rubytue]

The youngest is 20?! How did that happen...

[pixy0stix]

Nov 20, 2019 15:07:34 GMT -5 rubytue said:

The youngest is 20?! How did that happen...

I thought that too, but it's not true. The youngest is 9.

[amberlyrose]

Nov 20, 2019 15:07:15 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Huh. I haven't thought about the Duggars in a while.

Me either. 
It was retweeted on my feed and the HSI part piqued my interest. 

[downtoearth]

Nov 20, 2019 15:07:34 GMT -5 rubytue said:

The youngest is 20?! How did that happen...

I saw that in the article too, but Jedidiah is teh 10th of 19, not the youngest. I think the article messed up. 

And this link says that there is an 11 year old nephew Tyler who Jim Bob and Michelle have legal custody of... weird, I wonder if that is part of the ongoing federal investigation or if it has to do with real estate issues again (didn't the oldest have a case on real estate fraud or something?)

19andcounting.fandom.com/wiki/Duggar_Family

[amberlyrose]

Nov 20, 2019 15:36:44 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Nov 20, 2019 15:07:34 GMT -5 rubytue said:

The youngest is 20?! How did that happen...

I saw that in the article too, but Jedidiah is teh 10th of 19, not the youngest. I think the article messed up. 

And this link says that there is an 11 year old nephew Tyler who Jim Bob and Michelle have legal custody of... weird, I wonder if that is part of the ongoing federal investigation or if it has to do with real estate issues again (didn't the oldest have a case on real estate fraud or something?)

19andcounting.fandom.com/wiki/Duggar_Family

A quick twitter search makes it sound like it involves Josh and possibly Anna.

[biscoffcookies]

Even though Homeland Security Investigations is part of DHS, they have broad criminal investigative authority including fraud and child pornography. They are closer to FBI in terms of the breadth of cases they can handle than say ICE (which focuses on immigration stuff).



ETA: TMZ (I know, I know) say HSI raided Josh's office.

[downtoearth]

Nov 20, 2019 15:53:36 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

Even though Homeland Security Investigations is part of DHS, they have broad criminal investigative authority including fraud and child pornography. They are closer to FBI in terms of the breadth of cases they can handle than say ICE (which focuses on immigration stuff).



ETA: TMZ (I know, I know) say HSI raided Josh's office.

I can only hope that Josh was working directly with Trump on some real estate deal to bribe the Ukrainians to put in a new Ukrainian government-subsidized Trump tower in return for already promised/budgeted US aid. Too much to ask for, huh?  

[Jalapeñomel]

If this involves a child (!), shame on everyone around and TLC for continuing to let this happen to another innocent victim.

[eddy]

One of my guilty pleasures is checking into Duggarsnark on reddit. This has been quite the talk of the town!