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10-15-2010, 02:56 AM #1
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CA: Immigration agents raid Otay Mesa bakery
Immigration agents raid Otay Mesa bakery
By Morgan Lee
Originally published October 14, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.,
updated October 14, 2010 at 10:57 p.m.
The owner and three employees of a wholesale bakery in Otay Mesa have been charged with running an extensive scheme to hire and harbor illegal immigrants and evade detection by authorities. The charges were filed Thursday after federal agents swept through the business in an industrial zone near the Mexican border and arrested more than half of its staff.
In a criminal complaint, the U.S. Attorney’s Office accused the owner of S & S Bakery of altering workers’ delivery routes or keeping them at the factory to avoid detection by immigration officials. The owner also allegedly signed off on mismatched Social Security numbers for employees who fabricated, bought and sold fake government IDs, the complaint said.
One manager, himself an illegal immigrant, allegedly lived with 10 other illegal employees — some of them his colleagues, according to an anonymous informant cited in the complaint.
During a Wednesday raid on the bakery by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 41 workers out of 73 on-site were identified as illegal immigrants.
The business, located about a quarter-mile from a U.S. Border Patrol office, distributed its goods to military bases, prisons, hospitals, schools and even a federal building where federal immigration officials and prosecutors work.
Business owner Jesse William Fadick, 64; managers Rigoberto Sarmiento-Machuca and Rogelio Machuca-Sarmiento, 35 and 46 respectively; and employee Abel Baizabal, 38, were charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, false representation of a Social Security number, fraud and misuse of entry documents.
One S & S Bakery employee, Norma Angelica Flores, faces criminal charges on accusations that she returned to the United States after being deported in 2005.
An attorney for Fadick, the only U.S. citizen among the defendants, said his client will plead not guilty.
“We recognize fully how serious the charges are,â€
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