Members of the army have caught 30 Haitian citizens as they prepared to board a small bus bound for Santiago. The army also arrested the bus owner, Freddy Estevez Batista, who had organized the trip. The Haitians were hiding in the brush when they were found by the army patrol. There were 22 men and 8 women in the group, and they said that they were heading to Santiago and Santo Domingo where they had jobs working in construction. They all said that they had traveled back to Haiti in December in order to spend the holidays with their families, and that they were just returning to their places of work.