A Guatemalan national charged in connection with the Dec. 9, 2021 mass casualty event in Chiapas, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to human smuggling charges related to the crash of a tractor-trailer packed with at least 160 illegal aliens — many of them Guatemalan nationals — which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people, including unaccompanied children, and injured over 100 more.
Jorge Alberto Morales, 44, of an unknown city, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, to one count of conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented aliens.
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The crime occurred on December 9, 2021, in Chiapas, Mexico, where a tractor-trailer packed with at least 160 people, including unaccompanied children, crashed, resulting in the deaths of more than 50 people and injuring over 100 more.
According to court documents, Morales was the organizer of a human smuggling operation that transported undocumented aliens from Central America to the United States.
As part of his guilty plea, Morales agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation into the human smuggling operation.
The case against Morales was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Key Facts
- State: Alabama
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Human Trafficking|Violent Crime
- Source: Official Source â†â€â€ÂÂ
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