The FBI and Providence, Rhode Island, police raided a Central Falls Municipal Court judge's office Thursday, though the reasons are unknown.

The FBI raided the Rhode Island law offices of Central Falls Municipal Judge Joseph Molina Flynn on Thursday. (WPRI)

PROVIDENCE — FBI agents on Thursday searched a downtown Providence office building that includes the office of a Rhode Island immigration lawyer. Joseph Molina Flynn, who was also Municipal Court judge for Central Falls, resigned from the bench after the search, Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera told the Globe.

GoLocal exclusively broke the story that the FBI raided the penthouse offices of prominent attorney Joseph Molina Flynn.

(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.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Central Falls municipal judge Joseph Molina Flynn abruptly resigned Thursday shortly after FBI agents raided his law offices in downtown Providence.

Mayor Maria Rivera said a Central Falls Municipal Court judge resigned Thursday after the FBI searched his Providence law office. Judge Molina Flynn resigned after his office on Dorrance Street was searched,

PROVIDENCE – Central Falls Municipal Court Judge Joseph Molina Flynn has resigned his position with that city following the FBI’s raid of his downtown Providence offices on Thursday morning.

The Target 12 investigators are working to learn more.