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Newark, N.J. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers helped federal and local authorities capture a woman who was attempting to flee the country to avoid felony burglary charges Friday, the agency announced today.

CBP responded to requests for assistance from agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and from the Port Authority Police Department that were working to locate a woman who was attempting to flee the U.S. to avoid prosecution in connection with two felony warrants for burglary.

ICE agents notified CBP that suspect Wesnia Pihik would possibly be traveling under one of four aliases. CBP officers used advance passenger information in finding the subject attempting to board and traveling under the alias Sable Stojka. She was scheduled to depart Newark via KLM flight 658 at 4:40 p.m. bound for Amsterdam.

CBP officers at Newark Airport conducted an outbound enforcement exam of the flight and encountered the subject, who was traveling with an alias date of birth, her daughter’s passport and a wig. "Stojka" also was traveling with a friend.

New York ICE agents placed the woman under arrest and turned her over to the Bergen County prosecutor’s office for prosecution.

"This apprehension demonstrates CBP’s great working relationship with ICE and local law enforcement to protect the public at large," said Susan Mitchell, CBP director of field operations in New York.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of the nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.