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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania -- Hazleton Police Chief Robert Ferdinand spent more than four hours on the witness stand this morning in the city’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act trial going over crime statistics and describing crimes he said were committed by illegal aliens.
He detailed the investigation of the Derek Kichline homicide – the May 10, 2006 shooting that Mayor Lou Barletta says prompted him to find a solution to the city’s problem with crime being perpetrated by illegal immigrants. Police say two illegal immigrants were arrested in that homicide.
Ferdinand also detailed such incidents as police apprehending a 14-year-old illegal immigrant they say fired shots on a city playground the same day as the Kichline shooting and was later found with crack cocaine hidden under his tongue when arrested.
Posted by tyne at March 21, 2007