UPDATE: 9 people charged, including owner of school



A dozen Homeland Security investigators executed a search warrant at a Jersey City computer training school near Five Corners today and carried a number of boxes from the building.

"They never told us anything and we have absolutely no idea what is happening," said the owner of 567 Summit Avenue, Zoeb Daginawala, who lives on the top floor of the building and said he rents the bottom to a business called PC Tech Learning Center.

"I have no idea what they took," said the owner, adding that only the downstairs business was searched and not his residence. "The told us they have a search warrant."

When the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations agents left in their vehicles at about 1:30 p.m., the ground floor of the building appeared ransacked and papers and folders littered the floor.

Homeland Securities Investigations command center in Newark referred inquiries to the U.S. Attorney's office, which did not immediate respond to a call.

Across the street at Morella and Cup Italian Deli a man behind the counter said the computer training school employees were regulars at the deli.

"They used to be good customers," he said, adding "They could eat."

He said the agents were at the location since 6 a.m. and "They took everything."

PC Tech made news in 2009 when two Bayonne women said they paid an employee $35 to register at the school and $145 to take the National Healthcare Association accreditation tests to become medical assistants. They took the exam at the school in September, but months passed without word of their scores. The certificates they finally received turned out to be fakes, the women said at the time.

Also that year the school's Bergen Avenue facility closed for a week for failure to pay rent, according to court records.

Attempts to reach PC Tech at the three locations where it is listed were unsuccessful. The phone numbers listed for the school appear to be disconnected.