Hockey
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot jail Detroit Red Wing player Bob Probert while he fights a deportation order, a federal appeals court ruled in upholding a 1990 ruling.
Probert, a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty in a Detroit federal court in July of 1989 to importing cocaine from Canada for his own use, is challenging an immigration judge’s order that he be deported. That challenge is pending before the federal Board of Immigration Appeals. Such appeals can take two years.
Probert does not travel to Canada for Detroit’s games, fearing immigration consequences when he tries to return to the United States.