1. A federal grand jury indicted nine Thai nationals nearly a week ago for allegedly enslaving workers in the El Monte factory. 2. Investigators said that Lilly Chan allowed the police to search the place and said she would help them find Thai nationals who brought the women to her. 3. A federal grand jury indicted nine Thai nationals Thursday on charges they forced illegal aliens from their own country to work in a sweatshop ringed by razor wire. 4. After a raid by federal and state agents last week, six Thai nationals suspected of running the operation were charged with harboring illegal immigrants. 5. All crew members were Thai nationals, he added. 6. All the dead were Thai nationals. 7. Both women are Thai nationals and could be deported when released from prison. 8. Eight of the nine suspects, all Thai nationals, jumped into the sea in a fruitless effort to avoid arrest, police said. 9. Eight people pleaded innocent last week to charges they recruited the Thai nationals then harbored them as slave laborers in the apartment complex. 10. Eighteen Thai nationals are being held in custody after immigration officials refused them entry on arrival at Auckland airport on Thursday. |