A witness from a nearby medical building said special agents came from all directions Thursday morning and entered a Middletown Township lab that has conducted COVID-19 testing.
LevittownNow.com was able to confirm agents from the FBI, Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office were at the Genesis Diagnostics building on Town Center Drive near the Oxford Valley Mall.
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The witness said law enforcement appeared to have removed items from the lab and office building that was cleared of staff. One agent wore a raid jacket that said FBI Evidence Response Team.
Carrie Adamowski, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Philadelphia field office, confirmed that “personnel are carrying out court-authorized law enforcement activity at that location,” but she declined to release more details.
This news organization reached out to other law enforcement agencies and Genesis Diagnostics. As of 12:45 p.m., LevittownNow.com was awaiting a response.
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A number of shipping packages were stacked up outside of the lab’s one doorway.
Middletown Township police blocked the entrance the business park where state and federal law enforcement were working.
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Genesis Diagnostics opened one of the first COVID-19 testing sites in the Levittown area in March. They have continued to offer COVID-19 testing but also offer other lab services.
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