Police stop van carrying illegal immigrants
Published: Thu, Jun. 21, 2007 02:59PM
Modified Thu, Jun. 21, 2007 03:29PM
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closeRaleigh police this morning stopped a van they say was transporting illegal immigrants to various places on the East Coast.
Police stopped the van after receiving a report at 4:40 a.m. of a kidnapping near Interstate 440 and Capital Boulevard. When police caught up with the vehicle at I-40 and Aviation Parkway, they found four illegal immigrants who were being transported by a driver and his assistant, said Capt. Chris Bertram.
The family of one of the immigrants had reported the kidnapping, Bertram said. They had called police because the driver and his assistant had refused to let him out of the van when the family couldn't come up with money to pay for his transportation.
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Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement took custody of all the van's occupants, Bertram said.
One of the two transporting the immigrants had previously been deported as a felon, he said. He was identified as Edgar lagunas OCampo, though the name may be an alias, Bertram said.
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