Woman Charged With Trying To Smuggle Chinese Immigrants
DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne County woman faces federal charges after investigators said she attempted to smuggle Chinese immigrants into the United States from Canada.

Delecia Carter, 21, was released on a $10,000 bond in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

She's the third person charged in the court with such a crime this week.

Carter was arrested early Thursday after customs agents found four Chinese women hiding in the back of her Cadillac Escalade as she drove into Detroit from Windsor, Ontario.

Court documents say Carter told investigators she was offered $4,000 to drive the women into the United States, The Detroit News reported. She told investigators the offer was made by a Middle Eastern man in a Canadian bar.

On Tuesday, Wayne County Juvenile Detention officer Marion Rouse and Roderick Smartt, 28, of Detroit, also were charged with trying to smuggling Chinese immigrants across the border.

Investigators said Rouse was in uniform when he tried to enter Detroit from Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 1 with four Chinese immigrants in the trunk of the car he drove. He told authorities he was being paid $4,000 for delivering them to the United States.

Rouse has worked for the county since 2002 and has been placed on leave.

Smartt was caught on Monday with a Chinese woman and her son in the trunk of a vehicle he drove, authorities said.

Immigrant smuggling carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.