Rosarito Beach police detain smugglers with 6 Chinese citizens Aim was to reach the United States, police said
From The San Diego Union Tribune
by Sandra Dibble
ROSARITO BEACH - "Police in this coastal community on Tuesday said they detained six Chinese citizens who were hoping to be smuggled to the United
States. Also in custody were two of their alleged smugglers - one Mexican and a Chinese man described as the owner of a restaurant in Tijuana.
Following the detentions, two other Chinese citizens who allegedly tried to bribe police to release the detainees were also taken into custody, police
said.
Francisco Castro Trenti, Rosarito's public safety chief, said his officers were responding to a call Tuesday about two vehicles on Popotla Boulevard
when they discovered the group.
The driver of one of the vehicles, a Jeep Grand Cherokee with California plates, was identified as Jesus Ivan Olmedo Rodriguez, a resident of Rosarito
Beach. He allegedly said that he had been contacted by Jose Chew Yee in Tijuana days earlier to provide someone who could smuggle several people to
the United States, Castro Trenti said in a statement.
Olmeda said that on Tuesday, he and Chew Yee agreed to meet at a specified location, the statement said. There, Chew Yee ordered three men to get out
of his Grand Marquis and step into the Grand Cherokee being driven by Olmeda, police said. The purpose was to lead them to the Popotla fishing
village, where they were to contact the person who would take them to the United States, presumably by boat.
A half-hour after the detentions, two Chinese men appeared at police headquarters and offered money for the release of the detainees. They were
detained.
The unusual incident marked the first public notice in several years of undocumented Chinese citizens in Baja California hoping to cross to the United
States."
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