CADILLAC, Mich. — Michigan State Police say a mobile fingerprint scanner led to the traffic-stop arrest of a driver who had been previously deported for felony child molestation.
“The device connects to the trooper’s patrol car-mounted laptop via a bluetooth connection,” says MSP. “If the individual is wanted, ‘hit’ information is also supplied with the subject’s photograph and other identifying features. This is a process which once took hours and required the subject to be driven to a post or other law-enforcement building.”
The traffic stop was on US-131 near Cadillac around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
MSP says in a news release the driver claimed to be from Texas and said he had lost his wallet. So, the trooper employed a mobile fingerprint scanner to identity the driver as a Mexican citizen. State Police say he not only had been deported on the child-molestation case, but also had an active sexual-assault warrant out of Texas and was wanted by ICE (U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement).
MSP says ICE agents took the driver into custody. Two children inside the vehicle were turned over to the man’s wife, who was driving in a separate vehicle just up ahead.
