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Illegal alien task force arrests nine in Okaloosa
Andrew Gant
Tuesday February 12th, 2008


Nine people were arrested Tuesday at restaurants in Okaloosa County as lawmen searched for illegal aliens.

The arrests included one restaurant owner who ran from a task force.

Most of the charges fell on Los Rancheros on Eglin Parkway in Fort Walton Beach, where seven employees were charged with criminal use of identification information, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release.

A 17-year-old who was visiting a friend at Los Rancheros also was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in court. The juvenile was charged with providing a false name, the release stated.

At the Panda China Buffet on Miracle Strip Parkway, co-owner Shuy Liang Dong was arrested after he ran from sheriff’s deputies and tried to hide in a shed, according to the release.

Dong, of Coral Drive in Fort Walton Beach, is charged with burglary to an unoccupied structure and resisting arrest without violence.

In Crestview, lawmen are still investigating JB’s Chinese Buffet on South Ferdon Boulevard.

A 14-officer task force comprised of sheriff’s deputies from Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties and Fort Walton Beach police executed the raids.

All three restaurants are under stop-work orders from the Worker’s Compensation Compliance office. The foreign-born suspects will be reported to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Okaloosa sheriff’s spokeswoman Michele Nicholson.

Daily News Staff Writer Andrew Gant can be reached at 863-1111, Ext. 1432.

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ARRESTED:

1. Guadalupe Gutierrez-Vallerio, 23, of Tooke Street, Fort Walton Beach — server at Los Rancheros

2. Maria Del Carmen Sanchez, 24, of Temple Avenue, Fort Walton Beach — cook at Los Rancheros

3. Oscar Fernando Salazar Chama, 34, of Forrest Street, Fort Walton Beach — bus boy at Los Rancheros

4. Tania Padilla, 23, of Tooke St, Fort Walton Beach — waitress at Los Rancheros

5. Jorge Ramos, 30, of Bradford Street, Fort Walton Beach — waiter at Los Rancheros

6. Olegario Seis Pintor, 32, of Rose Marie Lane, Fort Walton Beach — waiter at Los Rancheros

7. Luis Alberto Lopez, 25, of Rose Marie Lane, Fort Walton Beach — waiter at Los Rancheros

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