In a town known as a migratory smuggling staging point, police in Chihuahua make arrests.
On Wednesday, Chihuahua state police responded to reports that a large group of people were escorting people from the north of Juarez’s Anapra area toward the U.S. border wall.
The state authorities said in a statement that the soldiers tracked down the group of 34 individuals and three adolescents and identified a few as Central and South American people. 11 residents were detained on smuggling charges after officers searched the town, found two vehicles that allegedly transported the migrants, and made arrests.
Government took the refugees for medical examinations and a food to the Juarez Red Cross tower. On Thursday, those who weren’t Latino people were kept in the prison of the National Migration Institute.
Chihuahua police only identified the suspects by their first names: Humberto Alexis” N”, 22, Diego” N”, 20, Brayan Osvaldo” N”, 23, Francisco Javier” N”, 21, Jesús Cobani” N”, 21, Gabriel Alonso” N”, 29, Kevin Enrique” N”, 24, Francisco Guillermo” N”, 22, Mario Alberto” N”, 38, José Isaac” N”, 31, and Daniel Alberto” N”, 41.
Authorities did not disclose whether the gentlemen were members of an organized legal organization or what specific roles they played in the smuggling plot. Anapra, which is located across the frontier from Sunland Park, New Mexico, has long been used as a staging area for migrant smuggling companies.
