Posted on Saturday, 01.31.09
IMMIGRATION

Immigration officer charged with harboring migrant

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was charged Friday with harboring an undocumented immigrant who had been renting a room from him for the past five years, authorities said.

Sherrod Russell, 48, a supervisory detention and deportation officer, was also charged with making false statements to federal investigators, according to an indictment.

Russell, of South Miami-Dade, is accused of shielding the foreign national in a residential property owned by the defendant. The indictment says he knew the immigrant had entered and remained in the United States illegally, but that he lied to investigators to conceal this fact.

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