NORTH KINGSTOWN — Four Brazilian men are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and will be deported after they were found to be illegal immigrants following a state police traffic stop this week, according to ICE.

State Trooper John Tondre stopped a van around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, after it ran a red light on Route 4 south at West Allenton Road, Maj. Steven G. O’Donnell said.

The driver could not produce a license, and none of the other seven men in the van had valid licenses, O’Donnell said. The men were taken to the state police barracks in Wickford after they told Tondre they were in the country illegally, he said.

An electronic query sent to ICE by state police revealed there was a deportation warrant out on one, said Paula Grenier, ICE spokeswoman. A check of identification of others in the van showed warrants for three additional men as well, she said.

The deportation warrants issued by a judge are not based on criminal charges, but because they were “in the country without authorization,” Grenier said.

The men are in ICE custody and are expected to be deported to Brazil, their native country, in the coming weeks, she said.

They are listed by state police as Sinval Ferreira Do Carmo, 31; João Da Silva, 24; Fabiano Oliviera-Monteiro, 27; and Marcio Fereira-Da Silva, 23.

O’Donnell said ICE took the other four men as well, but their status could not be learned last night.

The men worked for Colonial Construction, of Stoughton, Mass., and were heading to Narragansett, where they were framing condominiums as subcontractors on the Gilbane Development Co. project at the Pier, said Wes Cotter, spokesman for Gilbane.

“We ask each of our subcontractors to comply with all federal and state laws and employ all legal workers,” Cotter said. Gilbane will check with Colonial about the status of the rest of its work crew, he said. About 120 people, mostly subcontractors, work at the site each day, he said.

The listed owner of Colonial — Diogo Dosantos — did not return a phone call yesterday.

O’Donnell described the stop as “routine” in which state police followed the same protocol they always have.

It was not driven by Governor Carcieri’s executive order directing all law enforcement and correctional officers to work closely with immigration officials to identify illegal immigrants, he said.

kmulvane@projo.com