Illegal Alien Enforcement Unit Activity (WMBB-Panama City, FL)

Illegal Alien Enforcement Unit Activity
10/17/08 - 04:46 PM
Bay County Sheriff Office

Working on an investigative lead from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Bay County Sheriff’s Office Illegal Alien Enforcement Unit made an arrest yesterday October 16, 2008, of Phan Van Pham, a man ICE has been seeking for four years.

Pham entered the United States in 1977 as a refugee and applied for citizenship. In 1992 Pham, DOB 8/18/61, of 609 Allen Avenue, Panama City, was arrested and pled guilty to a charge of Purchase of Crack Cocaine. Because of this, his citizenship was eventually denied. The Illegal Alien Enforcement Unit located Pham yesterday and placed him in the Bay County Jail where he awaits pick up by ICE and deportation to Viet Nam.

Today the Illegal Alien Enforcement Unit arrested two individuals after a traffic stop revealed the driver of the vehicle had no driver’s license. Pantaleon Lopez-Santiago, DOB 7/27/86, of 607 W. 11th Street, Panama City, was charged with No Valid Driver’s License. Lopez-Santiago and the passenger in the vehicle, Santos Elias-Calel, were found to be without documentation and in this country illegally. Both are presently in the Bay County Jail and awaiting pick up and deportation by ICE. Lopez-Santiago will be returned to Guatemala and Elias-Calel to Mexico.