Eleven people were arrested at a Halawa warehouse at about 6 a.m. and eight others were taken into custody at a mid-morning raid at the 36-story Pinnacle Honolulu condominium building construction site at South Beretania and Bishop streets, said Wayne Wills, special agent in charge of ICE's office of investigation in Hawai'i.

Wills said ICE is conferring with the U.S. attorney's office and declined further comment on the raids.

The 19 people in custody are being held at the Federal Detention Center.

Pacific Resource Partnership, an organization of contractors and the 7,600-member Hawaii Carpenters Union, today issued a statement In response to the raid at the nonunion Pinnacle job site.

Partnership executive director Kyle Chock said, "Companies that knowingly break the law by exploiting workers and creating slave conditions are simply unacceptable."

The Pinnacle at 1199 Bishop Street has sold over 80 percent of its 50 fee-simple condominium units, which range in price from $885,000 to over $3 million. The project is being developed by Caribou Industries Inc., which owns Kaua'i's Hotel Coral Reef Resort.

In February, a police officer removed a piece of rebar from the rear window of a car on Beretania Street near Bishop Street. The metal may have fallen from the Pinnacle project site on that corner. No one was hurt.