Federal agents from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security raided the Providence, Rhode Island, office of prominent immigration attorney Joseph Molina Flynn on Thursday.

(WJAR) — Federal agents marched boxes of files out of a Providence immigration lawyer’s office Thursday afternoon, hours after their raid inside an office building on Dorrance Street began. NBC 10 News observed agents from the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the IRS go in and out of the office of Joseph Molina Flynn throughout the day.

“As the Central Falls community knows, transparency and accountability are priorities of mine,” the Central Falls mayor told WPRI 12. “In an effort to uphold the integrity and focus of the municipal court, Judge Molina Flynn has officially resigned his position.”