Illegal immigrants caught on I-83
Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Launched: 09/07/2007 09:47:39 AM EDT


9:47 AM
Sep 7, 2007 — State police investigating a littering complaint along Interstate 83 in Springfield Township Thursday evening discovered 14 illegal immigrants in the back of a pickup truck.
The driver, Miguel Barajas Huerta, 43, of Baltimore, who is unlicensed and had been drinking, according to police, is charged with driving under the influence, restrictions on alcoholic beverages, drivers required to be licensed, littering and passengers in an open truck.

The truck was pulled over at 7:15 p.m. near mile marker 8 after police received complaints from witnesses about multiple occupants in the back of a Ford F-250 seen throwing objects from the vehicle.

Police detained the passengers after they could not provide valid identification, police said. Huerta told police that all of the passengers were illegal immigrants, police said.

All 14 passengers were transported in a Rabbittransit bus to York County Prison, where they were interviewed by immigration officials. They were determined to be in the country illegally, police said.

Huerta and the 14 illegal immigrants are being held at the York County Prison.

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