PARSIPPANY — Federal immigration agents detained four people on North Beverwyck Road at about 7:50 a.m. on Tuesday, October 6.
The four were taken from a truck belonging to Alfred’s Landscape Design that was parked along North Beverwyck Road, outside Vape World and near China City. Video recorded by a resident and posted on social media shows armed agents, at least one wearing a vest marked “Police,” at the open door of the truck. Others were also detained for a total of ten individuals. A restaurant worker from Spa Luncheonette was also detained.
Two more people were reportedly detained near the Chase Bank on North Beverwyck Road. Parsippany Focus has not confirmed those reports.
Parsippany Focus has reached out to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Parsippany Police Department and Alfred’s Landscape Design for comment.
Mayor Pulkit Desai said his immediate concern was finding accurate information about where those detained had been taken and making sure their families were notified.
“I’m working on finding them because their families need to be notified,” Desai said. “This way, they can go through the legal process, whatever it may be.”
Desai said the township had received no advance notice of the operation and that he was made aware of it by the police chief and residents.
He said, to his understanding, those detained included landscapers and a restaurant worker who had worked in New Jersey for nearly 20 years. Not all 10 people taken into custody were necessarily Parsippany residents, he said.
Police said people who believe someone they know was detained can search for them using ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System.
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