{"id":6832,"date":"2022-11-03T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02af6129700024e4"},"modified":"2022-11-03T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:57:30","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-illegal-immigrants-in-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/man-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-illegal-immigrants-in-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SMUGGLING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN TRAILER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A south Texas man admitted to smuggling undocumented immigrants who were trapped in a travel trailer in Sarita, Texas. The investigation was by Homeland Security Investigations. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20210729_120526.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gaston Perez, a 40-year-old Brownsville resident, pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Texas, on Nov. 1, 2022 to transporting unlawfully present non-citizens within the United States.<\/p>\n<p>On June 30, 2022 Perez drove a truck hitched with a recreational vehicle into the Javier Vega BP checkpoint near Sarita, Texas. Shortly after, a K-9 alerted law enforcement to the RV. Further inspection revealed multiple individuals trapped in the back of the travel trailer. <\/p>\n<p>They were unable to exit on their own due to the slide outs being drawn in and not having power to extend them.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities used jumper cables to restart the RV battery and operate the slide outs. Five people were located in the back of the trailer including two inside a bed. Three additional individuals were discovered in the front of the RV.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement used a back scatter machine to scan the travel trailer and found two anomalies inside a wooden entertainment console. They removed a television set and discovered two more individuals sweating profusely.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10 unlawfully present non-citizens were located in the RV. One of them told authorities she felt like she was going to faint as she was getting out of the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Perez is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 15, 2023. At that time, he faces up to five years in prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine.<\/p>\n<p>Perez was allowed to remain on bond pending that hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several illegal immigrants were smuggled in a travel trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[88,225,227,710,408,406,405,404,691,407,410,611],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","tag-18-wheeler-truck","tag-border-patrol","tag-border-wall","tag-human-smuggling","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-smuggling","tag-smuggling-attempt","tag-undocumented-immigrants","tag-united-states-border","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}