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New Hampshire

June 8, 2007

No raid on Plainfield tax evaders, but plenty of fuss

PLAINFIELD (AP) - U.S. marshals insisted they had no intentions of storming the fortress-like home of a husband and wife convicted of tax evasion who refused to report to jail. But when SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles began marshaling in their tiny town yesterday, neighbors began to wonder whether a raid was imminent.

"There's been a lot of cars heading up that way. Law enforcement types," said Russell Hoisington, who lives on the road leading to Ed and Elaine Brown's hilltop retreat, and whose nephews - neighbors of the Browns - were rousted from their home by police yesterday morning.Read this article in full with a
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