Man gets house arrest, fine, for harboring illegals
Oct 20, 2007
By NICHOLAS LEDDEN/Daily Inter Lake
A Kalispell man found guilty of harboring, transporting and unlawfully employing illegal aliens was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Missoula.

Elroy Figueroa, 28, was given five months of house arrest with electronic monitoring, three years of probation, and fined $4,500.

He was convicted after a four-day trial.

Figueroa, who owns Figueroa Framers, brought three men from California to work on a construction project on U.S. 93 in Somers, according to court documents.

When agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement visited the job site, the three men twice told investigators they were Mexican citizens without valid immigration documents.

Figueroa told investigators he had an attorney trying to obtain work permits for the three men, but later admitted that he knew they were in the country illegally, according to court documents.

“What can I say, I got caught,â€