Police: Man caught smuggling illegals via underwater tunnel

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Police: Man caught smuggling illegals via underwater tunnel
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Posted: 7:54 AM EST (1254 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/18/border.smuggling.ap/index.html

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Border agents have arrested a man they say was trying to smuggle 17 Chinese citizens and an Albanian into the United States through an underwater train tunnel that links Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit.

A federal grand jury last week indicted Wissam Abudayyeh, a Palestinian man in his 20s and a legal resident of Canada, on alien smuggling charges.

Abudayyeh was to be paid $400 per person, according to immigration officials.

Defense lawyer Karen Davis Roberts said Abudayyeh "is innocent until proven guilty and deserves every right afforded under the Constitution."

Authorities say the illegal immigrants boarded a Norfolk Southern engine in Windsor before dawn January 5 and were caught by U.S. agents during an inspection after the train reached Detroit.

Abudayyeh was ordered held without bond until his trial. The 18 immigrants were being held as material witnesses.

On August 18, authorities caught 22 Chinese nationals and one Pakistani who apparently crossed the border aboard a train from Canada.

 

[ravensteve1961]

You see i blame the media for this. Remember the russians try to keep the east berlin escapees though a tunnel a secret. Now the media had to spit it out now people get ideas how to do this. Now if i was the FCC Id ban movies like "midnight crossing" from being shown on TV

 

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I agree. Sometimes I fear that too much information
from the media (and even on this Internet) would give
others some ideas how to do this or that. Sigh...