WRAL.com Raleigh North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Eleven passengers were escorted off a Southwest airlines flight Tuesday and taken into custody, suspected of being illegal immigrants.
The people were taken off Southwest flight 2340 from Chicago at RDU International at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Authorities said that an air marshal who was on the flight overheard some people talking about being smuggled into the U.S. The air marshal then contacted immigration and customs officials who met the plane.
Posted by Suzanne at March 31, 2005