After border agents tracked a convoy of SUVs and pickups from a bridge near the border to an empty Car area near Columbus, New Mexico, three individuals and 24 migrants are being detained.
Border agents were drawn to three cars traveling in parallel on New Mexico State Road 9 on April 24 because they appeared to be following a moving light Ford F-150. Two Ford Expedition SUVs and a Dodge Ram delivery, both with license plates from Chihuahua, Mexico, entered an RV park along NM 9, about 2 miles northeast of Mexico’s border.
Court records indicate that some U.S. Border Patrol agents gathered at the Car park to question the drivers. The officials saw many people, some wearing camouflage clothes, trying to hide in the back of each car.
Drivers Eduardo Marin Gomez, Oscar Perez Moncayo, and Kevin Corral Ochoa told agents differently that they were hired by a person from Juarez, Mexico, to generate an unspecified amount of unauthorised immigrants from the side of NM Highway 9 to Phoenix, Arizona, for money, according to a complaint affidavit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Corral, a citizen of the United States who reportedly lives in Juarez, reportedly told investigators that he was given the keys and gas money for one of the cars involved in the contraband plot. He was given the order to leave the RV park close to Columbus until the direct Ford F- 150 called the motorists if the roads were “hot” or apparent of Border Patrol vehicles, according to the complaint.
Marin and Gomez, two Juarez people with constitutional boundary- passing permits, gave similar tales.
The drivers are scheduled to show up at a detention hearing on suspicion of conspiring to carry illegal aliens for income on May 1 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in U.S. federal court.
No word on whether the cause driver had been detained.
