Neville Paul, Gleaner Writer
SANTA CRUZ, St. Elizabeth:
THREE HAITIANS, who were arrested last week by the Santa Cruz police and charged with illegal entry, were ordered deported when they appeared in the Black River Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
The three, one male and two females, have been identified as 22-year-old Joseph Andrews, 20-year-old Esta Dell, and 22-year-old Anne De-Mond.
Speaking through an interpreter, the three pleaded guilty and told the court they wished to return to Haiti.
HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
The Haitians told Resident Magistrate Angella Thomas that they left their homeland with the understanding that they were being taken to the United States, but were instead taken to Jamaica.
They were picked up at a house at Goshen in two separate raids by the police between last week Tuesday and Friday.
The police report that during an operation in the Goshen community on November 8, a house was searched and Andrews was found hiding in a room.
A second operation was conducted on November 11 and the two females were found at the same house where Andrews was found three days earlier.
The police say they suspect that other Haitians could be in the parishes of Clarendon, Manchester and St. Elizabeth, as the three in custody said they were part of a group which landed along the south coast of the island.
