Supervisors at raided meatpacking plant arrested





Associated Press - July 3, 2008 3:24 PM ET

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Two supervisors at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville that was raided by federal immigration agents in May have been arrested.

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza and Martin De La Rosa-Loera are charged in criminal complaints unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.

They face charges of encouraging illegal immigrants to reside in the U.S. and aiding and abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identification. Guerrero-Espinoza also is charged with aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft.

Federal immigration officials raided the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in the small northeast Iowa town on May 12. Nearly 400 workers were detained.

According to the complaints, unnamed witnesses told federal officials that Guerrero-Espinoza and De La Rosa-Loera were supervisors at the plant, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant.

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