Crime & Safety

Feds Swarm Business District, Nab Unauthorized Workers

Homeland Security initiates the action near Avenida Pico.

Police cars and a helicopter converged on a commercial building in the Calle Amanecer business district early Thursday and detained 22 unauthorized workers.

The search of R&R Industries on Calle Cordillera, which makes construction safety apparel, was the building that was raided, according to the Orange County Register.

Around 9:15 a.m., more than two dozen law enforcement vehicles assembled in a parking lot in the business district of San Clemente, accompanied by a helicopter overhead, according to a witness.

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Other workers along Amanecer reported police cars racing up the street toward the Avenida La Pata intersection.


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