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Man gets six months for transporting illegals
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
An illegal alien arrested in Runnemede in March was sentenced Tuesday to six months in federal prison for transporting illegal aliens.

Francisco Ramirez-Martinez, 26, a Mexican national, had pleaded guilty to taking $500 in return for transporting approximately 18 passengers who had entered the United States illegally, picking them up in Phoenix, Ariz. and dropping them off around the country, authorities said.

Ramirez-Martinez said he was provided with a truck and instructed to collect money from the illegal aliens when he dropped them off, said authorities.

A New Jersey State Police trooper who pulled Ramirez-Martinez over on the New Jersey Turnpike in Runnemede on March 30 found four males and a female in the cab of the truck and three more males in the bed of the truck, authorities said.

Ramirez-Martinez could produce only a Mexican driver's license and none of the others had any kind of identification, said authorities.

A federal judge in Trenton also ordered Ramirez-Martinez, who entered a guilty plea on April 25, to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on his deportation when he's released from prison.

-- Jim Six

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Illegal alien gets 6 months in prison

Courier-Post staff


TRENTON
An illegal immigrant from Mexico, arrested in Runnemede in March by New Jersey State Police while transporting other illegal aliens on a trip that began in Phoenix, was sentenced Tuesday to six months in federal prison.

Francisco Ramirez-Martinez had pleaded guilty in April to the charge of illegally transporting aliens. As part of a plea agreement accepted by U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson, Ramirez-Martinez agreed he would cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with his deportation after he serves his prison term.

He admitted he was transporting 18 passengers, all of whom had entered the United States illegally, and accepted $500 from each to deliver them to locations, including Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. His destination was in New York, he said while pleading guilty.

When a state trooper stopped Ramirez-Martinez's truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on March 23, he found four men and one woman in the cab of the truck and three more men in the bed of the truck.

When asked for identification as part of the traffic stop procedure, Ramirez-Martinez turned over a Mexican driver's license. Neither he nor any of the passengers had any identification documents, Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana V. Carrig said.
Published: August 16. 2006 3:10AM

Cost of doing business. I'm sure he'll be back at it in no time