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Published April 12, 2007 09:47 am -

NEW LOCAL: Police arrest illegal immigrants


New Castle News


State police arrested 11 illegal Mexican immigrants Tuesday and yesterday when vehicles in which they were traveling were stopped.

Troopers pulled over a Chevrolet truck going west on Route 422 near the Route 60 interchange in Union Township around 11 a.m. Tuesday after the driver allegedly committed several traffic violations.

Police determined the two occupants of the truck are in the United States illegally from Mexico. They were turned over to the federal Immigration Customs Enforcement bureau.

Around 1:30 p.m. yesterday, troopers stopped a van with a Tennessee license plate on Route 60 northbound in Union Township for alleged traffic violations.

They determined that four of the occupants are in the country illegally from Mexico; however, the van driver and a front-seat passenger are Tennessee residents.

Police transported the four aliens to the state police station and later detained five more people from Mexico. No details on those five were available at press time today.

All nine were taken to the Lawrence County jail, where they are being held in custody this morning for immigration services, police said.