(05/23/06 - RALEIGH) - Authorities arrested several construction workers at North Carolina State's football stadium Tuesday, suspecting that they had entered the country illegally.

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IMMIGRATION RAID

Several other workers at Carter-Finley Stadium ran from the stadium when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and state Highway Patrol officers arrived, said Lt. Everett Clendenin with the Highway Patrol.

The Highway Patrol had asked immigration agents to help them as they searched for a driver suspected of causing an accident that tangled traffic on Interstate 40 on Monday, Clendenin said. The driver was in a red 1993 Toyota that crashed into a Chevrolet van near the Wake-Durham county line, Clendenin said.

The van hit a concrete barrier and overturned across two lanes of the interstate, causing delays during early morning traffic, Highway Patrol troopers said. The driver of the Toyota jumped over a concrete barrier and fled, Clendenin said.

Highway Patrol officials tell Eyewitness News the driver, Reynalda Guitierres, 28, is in ICE custody. It appears that he will be deported.

During Tuesday morning's arrests, one of the suspects tried to grab an ICE agent's gun and faces more serious charges. No one was injured.

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