January 19, 2005
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Police: Man caught smuggling illegals via underwater tunnel
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
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.
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.
Wissam 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.
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