Edgar Sanchez-Solis, Alien Smuggling, Missouri 2023

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Edgar Sanchez-Solis, a 24-year-old Mexican national, pleaded guilty to his role in an international conspiracy to smuggle aliens from Canada into the US. Sanchez-Solis, who was living illegally in Kansas City, Missouri, was a leader in an alien smuggling organization (ASO) that brought hundreds of aliens into the US for profit. The ASO would smuggle aliens across the northern border and then employ drivers to pick them up and drive them further into the country.

In May 2023, a van carrying aliens became involved in a high-speed chase with US Border Patrol. The pursuit was stopped due to the risk to the public, but the local sheriff’s department used a tire deflation device to stop the vehicle after it failed to yield. Sanchez-Solis personally participated in and coordinated smuggling events with other leaders of the ASO.

Sanchez-Solis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling for commercial advantage and private financial gain. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 10, 2026, and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

The case was announced by Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, First Assistant US Attorney John A. Sarcone III for the Northern District of New York, and Special Agent in Charge Erin Keegan of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Buffalo Field Office.

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