Illegal immigrants arrested in Amherst (Chronicle-Telegram)

Illegal immigrants arrested in Amherst
Filed by Chronicle-Telegram Staff July 27th, 2010

AMHERST — Four men who admitted to being illegal immigrants when police stopped the car they were riding in were turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents Friday evening.

A car containing the four Hispanic men, whose ages ranged from 22 to 36, was pulled over on Cooper Foster Park Road about 8:20 p.m. when police noticed the vehi cle had a cracked windshield.

When police asked the driver for his license, the man produced a Mexican driver’s license. After that, the men admitted they were in the United States illegally, reports said.

The four were detained by police until U.S. Border Patrol agents from Sandusky took them into custody, according to Amherst police Lt. Joseph Kucirek.

The driver, Jose Carmen Ibarra-Vega was charged with an unsafe vehicle.

Kucirek said law enforcement agencies are seeing more instances of illegals being detained in this area.

“We’re not seeing a lot of it yet, but it is becoming more regular. This is getting to be a desirable area — the northern part of Ohio,” Kucirek said.

Kucirek was unsure if and when the men would face deportation hearings.

Calls to U.S. Border Patrol public affairs officials in the agency’s regional offices in Detroit were not returned Monday.