Tuesday, December 18, 2007

More illegal stuff in Arkansas

www.nwaonline.net/articles/fzacambarofolo
More Acambaro Documents Unsealed
By Ron Wood THE MORNING NEWS

FAYETTEVILLE -- Details about the government's case against the owners and operators of Acambaro Mexican restaurants continue to trickle in as two more cases have been unsealed. The latest allegations are that employees worked up to 60 hours a week and were not paid time and a half as required. The overtime was paid in cash at the employee's normal pay rate, according to the complaint against Armando Reyes, 33. The complaint against Lucila Huracha, 33, alleges she hired illegal immigrants to work at the businesses and handled employee eligibility forms. The complaint says Huracha assisted employees in getting stolen, borrowed or fictitious identification documents.

Armando Reyes and Huracha were arrested last week along with Arturo Reyes Jr., 35, and Silvia Reyes, 36, in raids on the restaurant chain and a distribution company operated by the Reyes family. All are in the country illegally, according to police. Court documents say the unlawful activity included identity theft, possession and use of counterfeit identity documents, employment eligibility verification fraud and money laundering. The cases were electronically unsealed late Friday evening. Armando Reyes is the younger brother of Arturo Reyes and helps manage the businesses, according to the government. They're all charged with harboring illegal immigrants. The government says the Reyes clan used illegal immigrants as the primary source off their work force and paid them off the books, allowing the business to make a profit. All four are being held on detainers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cannot bond out of jail.

Members of the Northwest Arkansas Immigration Criminal Apprehension Task Force raided Acambaro restaurants at 215 S. Eighth St. in Rogers, at 121 N. Thompson St. in Springdale, at 301 S. Walton Blvd. in Bentonville and at 406 N. Bloomington in Lowell Dec. 10. Federal officials have requested the forfeiture of 11 properties worth an estimated $3.6 million owned by a member or members of the Reyes family in Benton and Washington counties.
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IDs for aliens draw fire[Arkansas]

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This organization is even too illegal for the pro-illegals! Maybe Huckabee can negotiate a company to build a 1.2 million dollar facility for the Latin Community Organization of Malvern! Maybe he can cyphon several thousand dollars in tax money to the organization! Of course the owners of the Acambaro Restaurant Chain could have built a Mexican Consulate with the millions they made off of crime thanks to the former and current Governors of Arkansas.

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