A Pittsburgh police officer on a safety enforcement patrol this morning found an improperly hooked-up trailer and six illegal aliens.

Officer Tom Jacques was near the Parkway West around 7 a.m. when he heard a chain dragging from a pickup truck pulling a trailer with a spool of electrical conduit. He pulled over the truck at the Route 51 exit of the inbound Parkway near the Fort Pitt Tunnel and discovered the hitch was improperly secured.

He also discovered that some of the five occupants of the truck were in the country illegally from El Salvador and Honduras, which the occupants acknowledged.

A second vehicle carrying other crew members also had illegal workers.

Immigration officers took away six of the eight workers, who said they were subcontractors laying cable for a phone company.

Police found the trailer's lights were not hooked up, it had an illegal license plate, the hitch was not secure and the driver of the pickup did not have a valid license. The truck and trailer were impounded and citations will be filed.