Feds raid a Carmel home

FBI agents raid the Carmel home of a Pakistani family, seizing property which included multiple computers and files, as part of an IRS investigation. (Story lead in)

Carmel, May 15 - Officers say it was 7:15 Thursday morning when the Carmel Police escorted several FBI and IRS vehicles to 13246 Blacktern Way in Carmel. Those officials didn't leave until just past 11:30 a.m.

The address is listed as the home of Azam Meo. Reportedly a search warrant was obtained as part of an IRS criminal investigation.

Neighbors say several officers entered the home with guns drawn wearing bulletproof vests.

When the neighbors questioned an officer about their safety, they say the response was, "You're safer now than you were before."

Officers spent the morning seizing property from the home and taking pictures inside.

Residents say it's a quiet neighborhood. But some say they have noticed what they call "shady activity" surrounding the home in the last two years, including on at least one occasion a U-Haul truck leaving the premises in the middle of the night.

Police says there are no arrests or charges at this time. However, the investigation continues.

I am appalled at this. I can't believe that this
kind of feedback would be on a message board,
I just found this today.

I know Azam and have been a close family friend
of the Meo's for over 6 years. What happened to them
was an atrocity, a violation of our basic civil rights,
and to see support of that in the media and at this
"forum" really saddens me.

I have known Azam for quite some time and I can
tell you he is one of the most sincere and caring
people around, and truthfully, he is the most brilliant
person I have ever met.

You will hear the same from ANYBODY else that
actually knows him as well.

Nothing ever came of this raid, even though the
media ran with it for months. Nothing ever
happened, it was all just a mess that I had to
watch a friend go through.

There were no charges, no evidence, no court
rulings - NOTHING. This is the type of society
we now live in, where an innocent family can
be publicly ridiculed for doing nothing wrong.

Azam has truly touched my life and changed the
way I look at things, he has done the same for
many others and I am honestly in tears every time
I think about this situation.

I strongly urge you to look at the people behind
these types of stories and the lives that are
destroyed everyday because of this sickness.

These cowardly, racial, offensive statements
are disturbing and easily voiced with the
annonymity screen names and the Internet
provide.

I am the only one here willing to personally
stand up for what I am saying; to stand for
what is right.

My name is Colleen Ritchie and I can be reached
anytime on my cell phone at 317-833-6601

I also have known Azam for several years. I actually met Azam in college while I was attending ITT-Technical Institute (Now there's a piehole of a college that the FEDS should be focusing investigative efforts on instead). Azam is one of the few people I am glad to of ever met in my life. I don't have no life-changing story to tell about Azam. I only post this because I have great respect for Azam. It frustrates me that people would make racist comments about someone or an incident that they truly know nothing about. I believe that chance33_98
was only upset because there was a job opening, of which he applied for, at his local Kwik-Mart and was turned down for the position.

Azam is an up-font individual whom is honest no matter what. He is a caring individual whom could be mistaken to be otherwise only because his look of seriousness and ethnic race. Frankly, I think that it is extremely sad that his neighbors would even think to report peculiar activity just from observing a UHAUL at his home in the early morning. It's strange that people in such a nice neighborhood could be so ignorant themselves and about their neighbors whom they've lived nearby for so many years. They've neglected to take the time to meet Azam's family. I hope the neighbors with bogus claims lose their homes to foreclosure. They don't deserve to live in such a nice neighborhood if their going to be snobbish pricks! Or at least I hope they lose their appendages to leprosy.

Sincerely,
C. Jason Wilson
webmaster@simplercareers.com

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