Immigration detainers for 4 arrested at Morristown restaurant (Daily Record)

Immigration detainers for 4 arrested at Morristown restaurant

By Minhaj Hassan • Daily Record • April 24, 2009

MORRISTOWN - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have placed detainers on four peopel arrested Wednesday for conducting illegal activities at the Honduran Grill restaurant on Early Street.

“We have placed detainers on the four individuals who were arrested by police,” ICE Spokesman Harold Ort confirmed Friday afternoon. “We have an interest in those individuals.”

After the charges are adjudicated, Ort said the individuals will be in the custody of ICE for deportation hearings.

Police raided the restaurant after complaints from residents about alleged drug activity and selling alcohol without a liquor license.

Robert Guerra, 36, of Morristown, was charged with four counts of consumption of alcohol in a restaurant without a license, four counts of maintaining a nuisance and operating a business with a voided corporate charter, police said.

He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Also arrested was a restaurant waitress, Miriam Lamos-Martinez, 21, of Morristown. She was charged with distribution of a controlled dangerous substance within 1,000 feet of a school zone, and as four counts of consumption of alcohol in a restaurant without a license. She is being held on $75,000 bail.

The two others who were arrested were Leonardo Diaz-Hernandez, 47, and Marvin Rivera, 31, both of Morristown. Both were charged with possession of cocaine. They are each being held on $25,000 bail.