A carload of suspected illegal immigrants was chased down and arrested in Lincoln County recently. A statement from Undersheriff Ian Daugherty says the operation on July 8th was conducted in cooperation with US Border Patrol, which had alerted Lincoln County deputies to be on the lookout for a certain vehicle traveling along Highway 54. Deputies located the vehicle south of Carrizozo, but the driver initially refused to stop. After driving more than a mile along the shoudler, the driver finally came to a stop. Four of the five people in the vehicle voluntarily admitted they were illegally present in the US from Mexico and Guatemala. The driver, Eric Leanos, was determined to be a US citizen who has multiple arrest warrants.