El Paso, Texas ( Frontier Report )- A person who fled from authorities in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in a car full of workers and traveling at speeds exceeding 100 mph has admitted guilt.
According to records filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, Judas Alexis Figueroa on Wednesday admitted to transporting five illicit non-citizens from Douglas, Arizona, to a path leading to Interstate 10 north of Animas, N. M.
After putting a tire-deflation system on a dark BMW along New Mexico State Road 80, border agents arrested Figueroa on February 23. Figueroa immediately told investigators that he ignored them because they could not prevent him.
Eventually, Figueroa said people hired him to drive west of Bisbee, Ariz., to pick up workers and push them to Phoenix for cash, court records show. Border agents claim that driving around side streets in Southwest New Mexico is not uncommon for pirates to obstruct highway gates in Southern Arizona.
Details of the plea deal were not promptly made public. This year, a federal court in Las Cruces was scheduled to hear the agreement in a national magistrate’s courtroom.
