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    OK - Routine traffic stop finds 14 illegal immigrants in vehicle

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    Posted: Wednesday, November 28 2012, 09:25 PM CST
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    Dashcam video captures 14 illegal immigrants piling out of a car and running from police. What was supposed to be a routine traffic stop turned out to be anything but. Fox 25's Kisha Henry shows us why deputies think the unusual scene could become a lot more typical.

    Sgt. Cody Palmer is the Canadian County Sheriff's Deputy who made the stop. He says he's seen a lot of things being transported across the interstate-- narcotics, money loads, stolen property-- but nothing like this.

    "I'm driving eastbound on I-40," says Sgt. Palmer, describing the scene. He says he pulled over the red Trailblazer with Alabama plates for following a semi too closely. "He's so close, he's less than a car-length's distance," says Sgt. Palmer.

    "I go up and start talking to him, ask him for his license, insurance, everything," he says. He says the driver-- Jose Mascarena-Ayala handed over a Mexico-issued ID card. "He tells me he does not have an American license and he doesn't have his passport," says Sgt. Palmer.

    "He tells me they're coming from Amarillo and that he's been living there about a month." The driver told Sgt. Palmer that he and his family had just finished a roofing job and were headed back to Alabama. "There was no luggage, no tools, nothinig to go along with his story," says Sgt. Palmer. He says the passengers' stories didn't not match up with the driver's. "They just appeared to be.. terrified."

    Sgt. Palmer asked the driver and passengers to exit the vehicle and performed a search. That's when he realized just how many people were in the vehicle-- 14. "There was no luggage. There were bottles of urine in the back where literally they just go to the bathroom in these big jugs and they just keep driving down the road."

    Sgt. Palmer says the group seemed scared, but they fully complied with everything he asked of them. That is... until immigration officers arrived. Sgt. Palmer asked the group to load back into the vehicle because it was unsafe for them to all stand on the side of the road. He then took the driver back to his sheriff's vehicle and started doing paperwork while he waited for immigration officers to arrive.

    "They just scattered. 13 people running across the Interstate in front of cars (that were going) 70 -- 80-miles-an-hour," says Sgt. Palmer. "The driver takes off running from me. He gets out of my car and takes off running."

    After hours of help from multiple agencies, authorities tracked down 13 people, including the driver. One person is still at large. All are illegal immigrants.

    "People picture the U.S. -- Mexico border as being this big, secure fence... and truly, it's not," says Sgt. Palmer, who says the line for illegal immigration is moving further and further North. "It is literally in our backyard and it's happening right here in Oklahoma. We're going to start seeing a lot more of this."

    The driver-- Jose Mascarena-Ayala is actually banned from the U.S. for illegally transporting immigrants numerous times before. He now faces 13 new counts of human trafficking.

    The passengers will not face charges and will be transported back to their homes in Mexico.

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    14 illegal immigrants ditch car to escape police, arrested hours later [VIDEO]
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    11/29/2012


    A dashcam video caught 14 illegal immigrants jumping out of a car and running across the interstate to escape police in Oklahoma on Wednesday.

    Watch: VIDEO AT LINK

    A deputy sheriff in Canadian County, Oklahoma stopped a Chevrolet Trailblazer with Alabama tags for tailing a semi-truck too closely, but noticed something was suspicious when the driver said he did not carry a U.S. license.

    According to Deputy Sgt. Cody Palmer, who stopped the vehicle, driver Jose Mascarena-Ayala could only produce a Mexico-issued ID, and admitted he did not have a U.S. driver’s license or a passport.

    “He tells me they’re coming from Amarillo, and that he’s been living there about a month,” Palmer told local news station KOKH.
    The driver told the deputy that he and his family were driving back to Alabama after completing a roofing job.

    “There was no luggage, no tools, nothing to go along with his story,” Palmer told the news station. ”They just appeared to be terrified.”
    After Palmer told everyone to step out of the car so he could search it, he finally noticed there were 14 people in the vehicle.

    “There were bottles of urine in the back, where literally they just go to the bathroom in these big jugs and they just keep driving down the road,” Palmer said.

    The group initially followed Palmer’s directions — until immigration officers showed up. The deputy had asked the passengers to stay in the vehicle for safety reasons, but 13 of them immediately jumped out of the Trailblazer and made a run for it when they spotted the immigration officials.

    “They just scattered. 13 people running across the interstate in front of cars [going] 70, 80 miles per hour,” Palmer said. “The driver takes off running from me. He gets out of my car and takes off running.”

    Authorities were able to find 13 of the 14 people, the driver included, and all were identified as illegal immigrants.

    The driver had already been banned from the U.S. for caravanning illegal immigrants across the U.S. many times before, and he has been charged with 13 new counts of human trafficking.

    The passengers will be taken back to Mexico, but they will not be charged.

    Read more: 14 illegal immigrants ditch car to escape police, arrested hours later [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

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