Woman charged with trying to smuggle Chinese immigrants

AP ^ | 8-19-05

[Dan from Michigan]

Woman charged with trying to smuggle Chinese immigrants
8/19/2005, 7:25 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne County woman faces federal charges after investigators said she attempted to smuggle Chinese immigrants into the United States from Canada.

Delecia Carter, 21, was released on a $10,000 bond in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

She's the third person charged in the court with such a crime this week.

Carter was arrested early Thursday after customs agents found four Chinese women hiding in the back of her Cadillac Escalade as she drove into Detroit from Windsor, Ontario.

Court documents say Carter told investigators she was offered $4,000 to drive the women into the United States, The Detroit News reported. She told investigators the offer was made by a Middle Eastern man in a Canadian bar.

On Tuesday, Wayne County Juvenile Detention officer Marion Rouse and Roderick Smartt, 28, of Detroit, also were charged with trying to smuggling Chinese immigrants across the border.

Investigators said Rouse was in uniform when he tried to enter Detroit from Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 1 with four Chinese immigrants in the trunk of the car he drove. He told authorities he was being paid $4,000 for delivering them to the United States.

Rouse has worked for the county since 2002 and has been placed on leave.

Smartt was caught on Monday with a Chinese woman and her son in the trunk of a vehicle he drove, authorities said.

Immigrant smuggling carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

[Dan from Michigan]

Is it going to be a Jihadist next time? They caught a Hezbollah terrorist in Dearborn back in March. He came here as an illegal through our Southern Border.

[ncountylee]

Delecia....what kind of name is Delecia?

[DannyTN]

This just raises all kinds of questions:

• Is this a trial run with Chinese to see if Islamists can be passed through?
• Were the Chinese Jihadists?
• Are the Chinese not jihadists but still spys/operatives for China?
• Why were the Chinese working with a middle easterner?
• What does "Goo Goo Gai Pan" really mean?

[WatchingInAmazement]

She told investigators the offer was made by a Middle Eastern man in a Canadian bar.

Chinese illegals being handled by a Mid easterner in Canada...isn't it great how all these diverse people get along??? Ah....capitalism has indeed spread across the world. Capitalism without concience that is.

[cripplecreek]

I call it "Conscience free trade".

[GingisK]

Chinese immigrants BAD!!

Mexican illegals GOOD!

Why???

[Petey139]

Goo Goo Gai Pan is actually the episode of the simpsons where they go to China, It's actually Moo Goo Gai Pan, Which is fresh mushroom with chicken, Goo Goo Gai Pan after wikipedia is Fresh Mushrooms with a baby. Goo Goo Gai Pan

[ZULU]

I guess there's more money in smuggling Chinese immigrants.

Norweigans would take up too much space.