18 arrested at Houston flea market for document fraud

Houston Chronicle:

Federal agents on Saturday raided a Houston flea market and arrested 18 suspects wanted in connection with selling fraudulent documents, authorities said.
More than 100 federal agents and local police served the federal arrest warrants Saturday afternoon at the Sunny Flea Market on Airline Drive near Gulf Bank Road. The members of a multi-agency anti-fraud task force piled out of unmarked trucks and vans around 2 p.m.
Witnesses reported that some agents screamed "Don't run!" in Spanish as people fled the flea market.
Michael Feinberg, the acting special agent in charge for investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston, declined to provide details Saturday about the specific type of document fraud the suspects were accused of committing, saying they were selling a "variety of IDs."
Lance Solano, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant from Guerrero, Mexico, said he was at the flea market shopping for phone cards when he heard yelling and saw the agents pouring out of vehicles. Solano said he was detained with the other shoppers for about 20 minutes.
"They checked my (Mexican) consular ID card, and then they let me go," Solano said.
Feinberg said agents were targeting only the suspects identified in the criminal arrest warrants and were not making immigration arrests at the flea market.

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I can understand why they would give a priority to those selling false IDs, but it still seems strange to let someone go who is obviously in the country illegally.  Shouldn't they at least investigate whether the guy was there to buy a fake ID?

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