AMHERST — All five illegal aliens who fled from a minivan on the Ohio Turnpike in Amherst on Friday have been arrested, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
The five men — two from Honduras, two from Guatemala and a Mexican — fled from the van after it was pulled over by Border Patrol and ran south into a wooded area behind the Vermilion Valley Service Plaza. Amherst police and the Ohio State Highway patrol arrested three of the suspects within a few hours. Amherst police and Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the other two early Saturday morning.
All five were then turned over to the Border Patrol’s Sandusky Bay Station, according to a press release.
Melvin Hernandez, of Mexico, is charged with felony counts of transporting illegal aliens, according to the release.
See Tuesday’s edition of The Morning Journal for more on this story.
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