FBI raids Utah home in connection with UI animal-rights break in

FBI officials raided a home in Salt Lake City late Monday morning as a part of an ongoing investigation of an animal-rights related break in of the Spence Laboratories at the University of Iowa in 2004.

Federal investigators in Utah executed a search warrant from Iowa's southern district of the United States federal court that allowed them to search the home of a known animal rights activist, Peter Young.

According to reports from the Salt Lake Tribune, Young said that FBI investigators seized computers, papers, and other items they thought were related to animal enterprise terrorism.

“"It's important to highlight the fact that I am being targeted just because I am a public figure on the subject" of animal rights, Young said in an interview Tuesday to a reporter from the Salt Lake Tribune.

Young also said he had nothing to do with the UI labs break in.

"The lawyers are as baffled as I am," Young said. "Every indication is they [the FBI] are just on a fishing expedition right now."