Tag: Southern Texas
Juan Carlos Hernandez, Human Smuggling, Texas 2023
⏱ 2 min read Four more border bandits are facing up to 20 years in federal prison for trying to sneak back into the United States after being previously deported. Fernando Flores-Bautista, Carlos Guadalupe Aquino-Pacheco, Dionicio Rodriguez-Hernandez, and Francisco Javier Velasquez-Vela are among the 484 people charged with immigration-related crimes in the Southern District of…
Juan Carlos Hernandez, Reentering US Illegally, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read A convicted felon with a long history of crime, Luis Alberto Banda Acosta, 36, was driving a pickup truck in Bryan, Texas when authorities pulled him over on February 4, 2024. It was just the beginning of his downfall. As a Mexican national with multiple felony convictions, including failure to identify,…
Yahaniel Somoza, Human Smuggling, Texas 2022
⏱ 2 min read Two men from the McAllen area in Texas are accused of running a human smuggling ring, picking up and exploiting illegal aliens. Yahaniel Somoza allegedly transported at least two groups of migrants to a local mechanic shop, where authorities found 15 people. Fidel Cantu-Mendez was charged with picking up 13 migrants…
