Cops: men riding in lawnchairs arrested

Suspects were wanted by immigration officials

Updated: Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011, 11:17 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011, 11:17 PM EDT
Tim O'Coin



CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) - Two men whom police said were sitting on lawnchairs in a moving van were arrested for being in the country illegally.

Charlestown police said an officer on a construction detail saw that no one in the van was wearing seatbelts. They later found four people in the back, seated on lawnchairs.

Police said the officer found through the Secure Communities program that two of them, 26-year-old Ronison Fernandes and 47-year-old Angelo Dumont-Nunes, were wanted for entering the country illegally.

Both were taken into custody and turned over to the Bristol County Sheriff's Office.

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