Two men were taken into federal custody after Pennsylvania State Police discovered active immigration removal warrants during a traffic stop on Interstate 78 in Berks County over the Independence Day weekend.<\/p>\n
According to a Pennsylvania State Police public information release, troopers from the Hamburg Patrol Unit were conducting traffic enforcement at approximately 4:54 p.m. on July 3 when an Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) alerted officers to a vehicle with an expired registration.<\/p>\n
Police said a records check confirmed the vehicle\u2019s registration had expired at the end of February 2026, prompting troopers to initiate a traffic stop along Interstate 78 East in Windsor Township.<\/p>\n
The driver, identified only as a 53-year-old man who presented an Ecuadorian passport, told troopers he did not have a driver\u2019s license, according to the release. Troopers also observed that the vehicle\u2019s inspection and emissions stickers had expired in May 2026.<\/p>\n
Police said the passenger, a 55-year-old man, presented a Brazilian passport. After conducting records checks through CLEAN\/NCIC, troopers determined that both men had FBI identification numbers and were the subjects of removal-status warrants issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n
Deportation officers responded to the Pennsylvania State Police Hamburg station and took custody of both men to begin the federal removal process, according to the release.<\/p>\n
No additional information about the individuals or any traffic citations filed in connection with the stop was included in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were taken into federal custody after Pennsylvania State Police discovered active immigration removal warrants during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-238570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}