ALBANY – U.S. Border agents, acting without a warrant, improperly downloaded information from the cellphones of two women they arrested near the Canadian border for aiding a man in the United States illegally, a federal judge ruled.
Judge Thomas McAvoy (See Profile) also determined that agents at the Champlain border crossing in northern New York violated the women’s constitutional rights by failing to have suspects sign statements acknowledging they were given their Miranda warnings and waived their rights before being interrogated.
