Thread: Undocumented aliens detained in Rutland

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Article published Jul 13, 2006
Undocumented aliens detained in Rutland

The arrest of a man for stealing beer from a city supermarket helped lead police to round up 10 undocumented Mexican construction workers on Tuesday.

According to records filed Wednesday in Rutland District Court, city police had been called Tuesday afternoon for a reported retail theft at Price Chopper.

According to court records, the suspect, Antonio Garcia, 43, left the store without paying for an 18-pack of Budweiser before a store employee began to question him.

After talking to the suspect, police said they determined that Garcia was an "undocumented alien."

"When they started looking into his background, they found that he was undocumented and Border Patrol wanted him detained," said City Police Sgt. John Sly on Wednesday.

City police officers working the night shift Tuesday, including David Schauwecker, Joseph Bartlett and Charles Hall, rounded up the other nine undocumented Mexican aliens from several locations in the city.

Another five are believed to have left the state, and authorities were continuing to look for the other two. "It is my understanding they are construction workers done at the Green Mountain Shopping plaza," Sly said.

Sly said he believed the aliens were working for a subcontractor out of Virginia who provided laborers to the renovations at the shopping plaza on Route 7 in Rutland Town.

Nine of those rounded up Tuesday were taken into custody by federal agents. They were later released after getting notices for deportation hearings, police said.

Garcia, who pleaded no contest Wednesday in Rutland District Court to the misdemeanor retail theft charge, was given credit for time served since his arrest and was then taken into custody by federal agents.

Contact Alan J. Keays at alan.keays@rutlandherald.com.

Read the end of the story...the nine were released after getting notices for deportation hearings. So, why even arrest them in the first place?

How frustrating!

They were later released after getting notices for deportation hearings, police said.

The cycle continues!

Didn't President Bush say, in his address to the nation, that catch & release was coming to an end?

Nine of those rounded up Tuesday were taken into custody by federal agents. They were later released after getting notices for deportation hearings, police said.

Never to be seen or heard from again.

Poof they are gone that old catch and release thing that we were told is no longer going on is still going on. Just who do they think they are kidding with that?

Catch and release, catch and release, catch and release

Additionally, these guys are taking good construction jobs away from American citizens!!!!