ICE takes three into custody after motorcycle, car crash in Williamsport
A woman, believed to be from Peru, was taken into custody at West Third and Walnut streets in the city by a federal agent. She had no passport on her and was su spected of being in the country illegally. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Federal agents from the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office take two men into custody, suspected of being illegal immigrants at West Third and Walnut streets. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
The driver of this Hyundai Elantra was pulled over by city police at West Third and Walnut streets shortly after leaving the scene of a crash at West Fourth and Locusts, where the car and a motorcycle collided about 9:20 a.m. Monday, city police said. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Williamsport Patrolman Thomas Bortz examines damage left behind from a Hyundai Elantra whose driver fled the scene of a crash at West Fourth and Locust streets on Monday morning. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
After being put on a stretcher, an injured motorcyclist is moved to a waiting ambulance, which took him to UPMC Williamsport to get treatment following a crash Monday morning at West Fourth and Locust streets. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
A woman, believed to be from Peru, was taken into custody at West Third and Walnut streets in the city by a federal agent. She had no passport on her and was su spected of being in the country illegally. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Federal agents from the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office take two men into custody, suspected of being illegal immigrants at West Third and Walnut streets. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
The driver of this Hyundai Elantra was pulled over by city police at West Third and Walnut streets shortly after leaving the scene of a crash at West Fourth and Locusts, where the car and a motorcycle collided about 9:20 a.m. Monday, city police said. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Williamsport Patrolman Thomas Bortz examines damage left behind from a Hyundai Elantra whose driver fled the scene of a crash at West Fourth and Locust streets on Monday morning. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
After being put on a stretcher, an injured motorcyclist is moved to a waiting ambulance, which took him to UPMC Williamsport to get treatment following a crash Monday morning at West Fourth and Locust streets. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
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A routine city crash Monday morning involving a motorcycle and a Hyundai Elantra ended with federal agents taking the car’s driver and two others into custody, suspected of being illegal immigrants from Peru, according to Williamsport police.
Following the 9:20 a.m. collision at West Fourth and Locust streets, Williamsport, the 27–year-old Loyalsock Township cyclist was taken to UPMC Williamsport to get medical treatment.
The car’s driver fled the scene, but supposedly was on his way back when a city police officer, seeing the damage to the front of his car, conducted a traffic stop at West Third and Walnut streets.
The driver, fluent in Spanish, spoke very little English and a female passenger could not speak any English at all, police said.
The driver had a license from Peru, but was not licensed in this country, police said. The car’s registration was expired, police added. He had a questionable passport, and the woman had no passport on her at all, police said.
The city contacted the local Immigration Customs Enforcement Office, and two agents arrived to question the couple.
The driver’s twin brother arrived on the scene. His passport status also was questionable, police said. The federal agents took the two men and the woman away in handcuffs.
Meanwhile, the motorcyclist was being treated at the hospital for multiple broken bones.