Police Seek Help in Criminal Deportation
By JENNIFER V. HUGHES
Published: February 24, 2008

LAST summer the Suffern police arrested a 17-year-old illegal immigrant after he was found peeping into a girls’ bathroom at the village recreation center.

The teenager spent about a month in the Rockland County Jail after pleading guilty to trespassing and weapons possession charges (he had a switchblade knife) and was released for time served, Chief Clarke Osborn said. The next day, he was arrested again and charged with burglarizing a car wash.

In the future, an illegal immigrant charged with a crime in Suffern might not still be around, if the village completes plans to join what is known as a 287 (g) partnership with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency known as ICE. “If we were dealing with 287 (g) after the first incident,â€