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Agents Find More Than 70 Undocumented Immigrants In Home

POSTED: 8:02 am PST March 3, 2006
UPDATED: 8:41 am PST March 3, 2006

WILLOWBROOK, Calif. -- Federal agents backed up by a sheriff's department SWAT team raided a house in Willowbrook on Friday, finding more than 70 undocumented immigrants and arresting at least four suspected smugglers, officials said.

The raid on the so-called drop house at 2204 117th St. was carried out at about 6 a.m. by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents assisted by SWAT deputies who set off flash-bang diversionary grenades, said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

No one was hurt, Kice said, adding that there were women and juveniles among the undocumented immigrants and that a loaded pistol was recovered.

The more than 70 immigrants found in the house included citizens from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Ecuador, Kice said.