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Santa Monica resident arrested by FBI under sealed warrant

Tuesday February 04, 2003

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) FBI agents arrested a Santa Monica resident under a sealed warrant Tuesday and also searched the person's home, an agency spokeswoman said.

KNBC-TV, citing anonymous federal sources, reported that the person arrested was a Korean immigrant under investigation for ``a national security issue.''

FBI spokeswoman Cheryl Mimura would only confirm that agents executed arrest and search warrants at on a Santa Monica home at 3 p.m. and that documents seeking the warrants had been sealed by the U.S. Central District Court.

She declined to release any information on the person arrested, including name, age or sex.

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