Deputies arrest 6 in employer-sanctions raid on Phx company
 

near 32nd street and broadway

PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies arrested six people during an employer-sanctions raid at Prisma Graphic in South Phoenix Tuesday morning.

Deputies converged on the business at 29th Street and Broadway Road at about 7 a.m.

Prisma Graphic employs more than 130 people, according to information on its website. Deputies were looking for 17 people. Six were arrested. According to the company president, Simon Beltran, the remaining 11 have not worked there for about a year.

Beltran said he and his early team leaders were stunned to find deputies surrounding the company's two buildings when they arrived at work, but did everything they could to cooperate.

MCSO reportedly received two separate tips that some of the company's employees are undocumented immigrants who used false or stolen identification to get their jobs.

According to MCSO, some of those employees were seen printing out Wells Fargo credit-card information, government hunting tags and Health Net information.

The sheriff said his deputies had developed information about 17 specific people before they ever step foot inside Prisma Graphic.

"We don't racial profile," Arpaio said. "We already know when we come in here who we're going to arrest."

According to MCSO, two of the suspects tried to run but were caught by deputies stationed at the back door.

Arpaio said investigators will keep looking for those other 11 suspects who are no longer employed by Prisma Graphic. He said it's only a matter of time before deputies track them down and take them into custody.

Arpaio and his deputies have conducted 54 similar raids in the past few years, the most recent being at C&M Homes, a Mesa construction company, in early October.

"They don't seem to care, these businesses that keep hiring illegal aliens with false ID," Arpaio said at the time. I'm going to keep cracking down. ... I think they should do more, be more vigilant."

Identity theft is a Class 4 felony.

Prisma Graphic opened as a boutique printing shop in Phoenix more than 30 years ago. According to the company's website, the privately-held business had just 30 employees and $1 million in sales in 2000. It has since grown and is now headquartered in an 82,000-square-foot facility, has more than quadrupled its staff and posts $24 million in annual sales.


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Entirely to much reading but I do like Sheriff Joe Arpaio ... :)
and his Tent City

When is he going to start arresting the people that are hiring them.

when the law changes. there have been some that had their biz shut down never to open again. all because they hire illegal workers.

new age 'report your neighbour'?

Yeah, crazy that people would report a crime taking place.

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if someone was working on your social security would you want someone to catch them? not you right? they will give it back when their done. :) their using real peoples numbers. gaining credit cards and anything they can get on credit.

reporting a crime taking place and providing evidence that a crime has taken place are two different things

isn't there laws against 'making accusations' up in order to 'get back' at a company?

what are you talking about? 6 were arrested

This is the part that interested me ...

"According to the company's website, the privately-held business had just 30 employees and $1 million in sales in 2000. It has since grown and is now headquartered in an 82,000-square-foot facility, has more than quadrupled its staff and posts $24 million in annual sales."


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big money makers

What the hell are you even talking about? "get back" at the company? "making up accusations"? You're completely insane.


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