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Two smugglers federal prosecutors 53 migrant deaths In 2022, behind a violent tractor trailer in Texas, he was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday.
Felipe Orduna-Torres, 32 and Armando Gonzales-Ortega, 55, the most deadly human smuggling of the nation along the US-Mexico border, will be the first of several suspects convicted of the nation in the San Antonio tragedy. In March, discussed by the jury only one hour Before they had to be part of a human smuggling, which resulted in death and injury.
Army-torres, who Prosecutors described As the leader of the smuggling operation, two lifetimes were sentenced to two lifetimes and a third number of additional 20 years to be served consistently. CBS Affiliate Kens. Gonzales-Ortega was sentenced to 87.5 years in prison. Prosecutors told Gonzales-Ortega as the best assistant of the army-Torres.
Both men were fine of $ 250,000.
In the truck, 64 immigrants came from Guatemala, Hondureas and Mexico, and in the indictment, the indictment was paid to everyone between 200,000 and $ 15,000 and $ 15,000. When they were placed together, we did to Texas Texas Border City City broken-conditioned tractor-trailer For a three-hour drive for San Antonio.
When the temperature rises inside the temperature, he shouted inside and bent the trailer’s walls for help or said they were trying to flush their way. Came out from the end. When the trailer was opened in San Antonio, 48 people were already dead. The other 16 were taken to hospitals where five others were killed. The dead included six children and pregnant women. Only 11 people survived in the vehicle.
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Shortly after a news briefing, San Antonio Security Director William McManus, described the scene as “tragicity beyond the words.”
“I don’t understand how anyone can make it happen and how to call to escape the scene,” McManus said gossip.
Orduna-Torres and Gonzales-Ortega were sued three years after the tragedy.
Investigators said that the Army-Torres and Gonzales-Ortega, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico are working with human smuggling operations, instructions, guides, stash houses, trucks and trailers. Orduna-Torres, called Laredo and Gonzalez-Ortega met there.
Before other men, other men, including truck driver, confessed to the sinners in the case of smuggling claims Homero zamorano jr., Some bushes were found hiding near trailers. Zamorano is dying in prison when convicted in December. This Other defendants It is planned to be condemned this year later.
The incident is the most deadly among the tragedies that killed thousands of people because they tried to pass the US border in recent decades. Ten immigrants died in 2017 After a truck parked in a Walmart store in San Antonio. In 2003, the bodies of 19 immigrants were found in the southeastern city of San Antonio.
