Alleged pirates attempt to flee Border Patrol by renting off-road cars to pick up workers at Otay Mountain.
The incident took place last Saturday on the San Diego County, California, Otay Mountain vehicle trail. , near the border with Mexico.
Three all-terrain vehicles that were operating on Border Patrol security cameras were seen heading up the mountain around 3 a.m. m. turning onto a flat place where many people climbed onto two of the vehicles as they emerged from the clean. According to court records, one of the ATVs remained on the spot while the other two traveled down the mountain road.
A frontier guard identified only as D. Hernandez stopped the two Bikes as they approached a marked vehicle. According to court records, he was unable to speak with the occupants about their nationality, but the result vehicle’s driver continued to ask questions of the passengers.
According to a criminal complaint filed on Monday in the United States, the motorist accelerated the idle ATV in the direction of the broker who had to climb out of the way to prevent being struck when Hernandez instructed the driver to allow his passengers talk. S. Southwestern District of California district judge.
The next ATV’s pilot also accelerated and maneuvered around the fallen broker and his patrol car. A number of Border Patrol units called in to help and discovered the two abandoned ATVs, discarded helmets, and belt along a section of the path known as Triple Nickel, along with discarded helmets and equipment.
Agents searched for an unauthorized woman who was hiding outside and followed footprints to areas three additional Mexican citizens had hidden. Border agents afterwards discovered two more people they later identified as the ATV owners using infrared thermal scanning devices.
Eight illegal migrants who had been identified by 5:45 a.m. were located in the hunt. A canine unit assisted in the research. m. , documents show. Officials up the mountain eventually took the two people who were the third ATV into prison. According to the report, Edgar Castaeda and Oscar Gallegos allegedly admitted to paying investigators that they were paid$ 200 each but that they were only hired to serve as “lookouts ” for the men who would be picking up and moving the illegal immigrants. They said the off-road lorries were all rented.
Three Mexican nationals who are being detained as key witnesses in the case told investigators that they paid or owed smugglers more than$ 10,000 each to be smuggled into the United States. S. and transported to Los Angeles. They said a foot manual, or Mexican criminal, helped 12 people cross that night and left when they got on the ATVs.
Angel Trujillo Rodriguez, a immigrant, claimed he “feared for his life in the ATV because he was afraid of being seriously injured or killed” in the car.
Along with Castaeda and Gallegos, the owners later identified as Jonathan Tyler Acosta and Brian Alexis Ramirez are accused of crime and transport of illegal foreigners for income. All four made their first court appearance in San Diego on Monday and were awaiting connection.
