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Last updated on Thursday, April 26, 2018
(PLAINFIELD) - More than a dozen people were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs during a raid of three Mexican restaurants in Hendricks County Tuesday.
"It was out of the middle of nowhere and cop cars just showed up," Bruce Callahan, a witness, told FOX59 News.
Callahan saw the commotion outside of El Meson just off of US 40 in Plainfield and hit record.
ICE agents also searched Bravos and Iguanas. All three restaurants are owned by the same family and share the same employee pool, according to ICE. One agent tells FOX59 they were searching for one man who they call a "criminal alien fugitive."
In the end, 15 employees were detained. Eight are still in ICE custody. Six of those detainees are from Mexico. One is from Guatemala and the other is from El Salvador. Agents say four of those people were previously removed and reentered the country illegally. They will not say whether they got their man.
The raids have been a hot topic in the Plainfield community.
All three restaurants are back open. FOX59 spoke to management at Iguanas who did not want to comment on camera, but said five of their employees were arrested by ICE.
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