A joint law enforcement operation resulted in the arrest of 12 illegal immigrants at a residential complex in the Lewis Yard settlement earlier this week.

Superintendent of Police Terecita Pinder reported that on Wednesday, January 13, officers of the Immigration Department, Drug Enforcement Unit and Mobile Division, while acting on information, went to Lewis Yard where they discovered 10 Haitians and two Jamaicans at an apartment building.

She said the immigrants were all handed over to the Bahamas Department of Immigration for further investigation.