El Paso, Texas ( Border Report )- A driver who attempted to avoid Texas Department of Public Safety warriors by colliding with a parked car at a company decided to file migrant-smuggling costs.
According to records filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Kevin Joshua Contreras and an alleged accomplice were charged with conspiracy and the transportation of illegal aliens last week and entered a plea of” not guilty” after the federal grand jury in El Paso entered a plea of” not guilty” after the pair were charged with filing a witness ‘ list in court.
The allegations stem from a reported May 8 migrant smuggling test that abruptly ceased in a firm ‘ parking lot at 8000 Steel Road in Vinton, Texas, north of La Union, New Mexico.
A few miles from the border walls, members of the U.S. Border Patrol Anti-Smuggling System had noticed two vehicles driving in combination into a community abutting the southeastern New Mexico plain. Soon afterward, a blue GMC Acadia and a Ford Focus with Texas registration plates came out of the town and headed for the Texas state line.
When the cars crossed into Texas, according to court records, and the state soldiers zeroed in on the SUV that appeared to have several tenants, Border Patrol requested the assistance of Texas DPS.
According to a criminal complaint oath, Contreras reportedly stopped the car near a Vinton material plant so that seven occupants had exit, then drove into a parking lot of a company and “attempted to escape” but crashed into a parked car.
Without any further event, Contreras was taken into custody at the crash page, and the Border Patrol tracked down and apprehended seven refugees who had left the Acadia. Border agents detained vehicle Brian Michael Dellinger after they discovered the following auto at a petrol station on Doniphan Drive in El Paso.
Dellinger allegedly told Anti-Smuggling System officials that Contreras paid him$ 400 to act as a decoy when he was confronted by regulators. Arias claimed in documents that he knew the people who he picked up were workers and that he had been hired by unknown people to move them to El Paso for about$ 2,800.
However, both plaintiffs have since pleaded not guilty to the charges. On July 2, Contraras and Dellinger are scheduled to appear in national judge in El Paso before U.S. District Judge Leon Schydlower.
