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Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (WGME)

LISBON FALLS (WGME) - A hit-and-run being investigated by Lisbon police led to a month-long operation that ended Tuesday night with 17 undocumented migrants being removed from aLisbon Falls home.

Lisbon Police Chief Ryan McGee says in February, their station responded to a hit-and-run crash in Lisbon Falls.

With that investigation, police say they learned that those involved in the hit-and-run may have been in the United States illegally.

Police reached out to Border Patrol and figured out the suspects were connected to 93 Main Street in Lisbon Falls.

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The investigation led to a house in Lisbon Falls where 17 undocumented non-citizens were discovered Tuesday night.

The agents say they determined the undocumented non-citizens worked for a Massachusetts-based company. The company rented the house to provide a residence for the migrants.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (US Border Patrol Houlton Sector)

Border Patrol says the subjects, from Nicaragua and Guatemala, add to a growing trend of undocumented non-citizens transiting in and out of Maine.

Border Patrol officers took the undocumented non-citizens to Rangeleyfor processing.

McGee says before the Androscoggin County Sheriffs Office and the Oxford County Sheriffs Office showed up with transport vans, the arrested individuals were sat on a town bus to wait and stay warm.

"They were cooperative, everything went very peacefully," McGee said.

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During processing, Border Patrol says two of the subjects from Guatemala were found to have re-entered the United States after being previously removed. Reentering the United States after removal is a felony crime, punishable by a fine and not more than two years of prison.

Four undocumented non-citizens were found to have entered the United States illegally along the southwest border and were already in removal proceedings. Those subjects were released to await immigration proceedings.

The other subjects from Nicaragua and Guatemala were entered into removal proceedings, according to Border Patrol.

This incident remains under investigation.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (US Border Patrol Houlton Sector)

CBS13 spoke with two people who say they live at the address and own a construction company.

They didn't want to go on camera but said the people taken into custody were hard workers.

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