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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mexican man 'smuggled 85 migrants in tractor trailer through the US-Mexico border region to settle $8,000 debt owed for his OWN illegal crossing'
2022-07-27
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • José Luis Vega-Arzate told a Texas court last Friday he was guilty of smuggling 85 undocumented migrants who were locked in a tractor trailer

  • The Mexico native reached an agreement to drive the truck in Texas with smugglers to settle his $8,000 smuggling debt

  • The 31-year-old approached a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo on May 11 when he was stopped for a routine inspection

  • A sniffer dog detected the presence of humans in the cargo container before the border agents discovered the migrants inside

  • Vega-Arzate is scheduled to appear in court October 20 and could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison
Related:
Laredo: 2022-07-02 53 migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint: US official
Laredo: 2022-07-01 5 Dead in 2nd Fatal Human Smuggling Crash in 24 Hours near Border in Texas
Laredo: 2022-06-30 Driver of doomed Texas tractor-trailer, 45, crossing US-Mexico border hours before pretending to be a migrant when cops found him high on meth: Death toll rises to 53
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