Crime Rap Sheets

Friday 29 August 2008

U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents discovered 62 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday hiding in a suburban duplex.

U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents discovered 62 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday hiding in a suburban duplex.Agents acting on a tip discovered the stash house about 10:30 a.m. and detained the group without incident, said Dan Doty, a local Border Patrol spokesman. Most of the detainees were from countries other than Mexico."This area is a very nice area," Doty said of the Edinburg apartment complex at 708 Jasper Road. "It's not the type you would generally associate with smuggling."Nina Pruneda, a Houston-based ICE spokeswoman, said the agency is pursuing leads to find the human smugglers, but ICE had no immediate suspects.Tuesday's discovery of the large group of illegal immigrants in a family-friendly area is a reflection of how human smugglers are stashing immigrants in quiet communities to avoid detection, Doty said."It's not your colonias that they're using anymore or old abandoned houses," he said.Mission police discovered an immigrant stash house July 1 in a newly developed subdivision. Authorities arrested five men at the house at 2113 Sierra Court after receiving a report that a Honduran woman who had been stashed there was sexually assaulted.Tuesday's raid netted illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, Pruneda said.

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