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July 10, 2008

4 men in ICE custody after N. Kingstown traffic stop

NORTH KINGSTOWN -- Four Brazilian men are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and will be deported after they were found to be illegal immigrants during a state police traffic stop this week, according to ICE.

State police stopped a southbound van around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, after it ran a red light on Route 4 at West Allentown Road, according to a state police press release.

The officer sent an electronic query to ICE that revealed there was a deportation warrant out on one of the men, said Paula Grenier, ICE spokeswoman. A check of identification of others in the van showed warrants for three additional men as well.

The deportation warrants issued by a judge are not based on criminal charges, but because they were “in the country without authorization,” Grenier said.

The men are in ICE custody and are expected to be deported by to Brazil, their native country, in the coming weeks, she said.

They are listed by state police as Sinval Ferreira Do Carmo, 31; Joao Da Silva, 24; Fabiano Oliviera-Monteiro, 27; and Marcio Fereira-Da Silva, 23.

The four men worked for Colonial Construction, of Stoughton, Mass., and were heading to Narragansett, where they were framing condominiums as subcontractors for the Gilbane Development Co. project at the Pier, said Wes Cotter, spokesman for Gilbane.

-- Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney

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