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PDN: 5 illegal immigrants caught in Guam
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Posted on Aug 27 2005
Five persons of Chinese origin who are suspected of trying to enter Guam illegally were arrested Friday, according to a report in the Pacific Daily News. The report quoted a Guam official as saying that the suspects are believed to have arrived in Guam from the CNMI.
The report said that the five arrived in Guam on a 21-foot motorboat that was found Friday morning abandoned on the beach at the Guam National Wildlife Refuge at Ritidian Point. It is believed that at least five more people were on the boat as well.
Rocky Miner, port director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told PDN that the individuals “probably came to Guam by boat from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”
According to PDN, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials had found a man and a woman “looking scratched up and disoriented on the road just inside the refuge gate.”
Refuge manager Gerald Deutsher told PDN that they detained the two people for trespassing and then turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for questioning.
“Later in the morning, law enforcement officials found three more people in an abandoned concrete structure on the cliff line. The five people were detained and questioned at the refuge headquarters at Ritidian Point. They were seen filing out of the building in handcuffs and were taken to a white Immigration and Customs Enforcement van,” the PDN article said.
