Ricardo Arauz-Cedeno, an immigrant from Ecuador, drove from his home on Long Island to pick up his girlfriend in East Elmhurst last summer when his car was surrounded by armed men outside her workplace, according to his attorney.
The men turned out to be federal immigration enforcement agents, said Arauz-Cedeno’s attorney, Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo. The agents shattered Arauz-Cedeno’s car window, took him into custody, and eventually put him into deportation proceedings, the attorney said.
It wasn’t clear how the federal agents located her client, who has no official connection to the girlfriend’s workplace, but O’Doherty-Naranjo, a former Manhattan district attorney, says she strongly suspects the federal agents used digital license plate-tracking technology – as has been the case by federal authorities in jurisdictions across the country…