Federal prosecutors in San Antonio announced Friday the indictment of 11 people connected to the deaths of seven migrants, including a 14-year-old, who were locked inside a sealed, unventilated shipping container on a Union Pacific train in May.
Federal officials announced significant developments in a deadly South Texas human smuggling investigation. Eleven suspects have been indicted, but two of them are still at large.
A man was sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with a deadly human smuggling operation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A Guatemalan man, involved in the 2022 Quintana Road tragedy where at least 53 people died, pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal court, the Department of Justice said in a news release.
Five of the six people found dead inside a shipping container Sunday in Laredo have been identified, according to the Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The trial for a man charged in connection with a deadly smuggling case in 2022 was pushed back several months due to a technical issue with a witness, according to United States District Court Judge Orlando Garcia.
A man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in a human smuggling operation, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Wednesday.
A San Antonio woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million for her role in a deadly human smuggling operation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
Three undocumented immigrants engaged in human smuggling were arrested after attempting to evade by jumping from rooftop to rooftop early Friday morning across southwest Bexar County, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.
Three men were arrested on human smuggling charges after traffic stops in Von Ormy, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
Four people were arrested in connection with a human smuggling operation near a gas station on the Southwest Side, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
Neighbors are still trying to make sense of a raid on an East Side home that ended with the arrest of a woman they knew only as a wife and mother.
Friday marked three years since the Quintana Road Tragedy, and community members are holding a vigil Saturday morning to remember the 53 lives lost.
A federal judge issued two lengthy sentences to two men connected to a 2022 migrant smuggling tragedy along Quintana Road Friday morning.
A man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison in connection with a human smuggling case that left one person dead in 2023, according to a news release from District Attorney Tonya Spaeth Ahlschwede.
A memorial honoring the 53 migrants who were killed in a 2022 smuggling tragedy along Quintana Road was vandalized, according to San Antonio police.
A federal jury found two men accused in the 2022 migrant smuggling tragedy along Quintana Road in San Antonio guilty on Tuesday afternoon.
The human smuggling organization responsible for the 2022 incident, which resulted in the deaths of 53 undocumented immigrants, was aware for three days that the cooling system in the semi-truck used for their transport was not working correctly, a co-conspirator testified Thursday.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including San Antonio police and federal agents, are investigating a human smuggling case.
A Laredo man accused of smuggling 52 migrants in three human smuggling cases has been arrested, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said on Saturday during a news conference.
A Laredo man was arrested for allegedly being involved in human smuggling operations involving 52 migrants, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
Two people from South Texas have been arrested on smuggling charges. Sheriff's investigators they had 12 people crammed into an SUV.
Two migrants were found by a Texas trooper last week inside a gas tank along the southwestern Texas border, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson.
Federal officials on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead and 11 injured in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
53 crosses line Quintana Road, honoring the 53 migrants who died in the back of a tractor-trailer in 2022.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has released the names and subsequent charges of seven people arrested for their alleged involvement with a human smuggling operation in south Bexar County.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is on the scene of a human smuggling operation in far south Bexar County.
Three men arrested Thursday night for their involvement in a human smuggling operation have been identified, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
Domingo Mena arrested, charged with smuggling of persons after police discovered 2 undocumented people
Four Mexican nationals have been arrested in connection with a human smuggling operation that killed 53 people one year ago in San Antonio.
Isabel Franco, 22, was taken into custody by Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies and special agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Juan Carlos Soto-Victorino, 19, Jose Jared Soto-Victorino, 20, Lazaro Alfonso Estrada-Perez, 33, Fernando Espinoza-Rodaz, 26, and Lazaro Yonary Espinosa-Ramos, 18, are each charged with aggravated kidnapping and engaging in organized criminal activity.
San Antonio police who were called to perform a welfare check Monday morning uncovered what they believe to be a human smuggling operation on the city’s Northwest Side.
A driver who sideswiped a San Antonio Police Department SUV Wednesday morning may have been smuggling a truck full of migrants, investigators say.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the eight suspects coordinated the transportation of the migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to other parts of the country.
A memorial service on Quintana Rd. honored the lives of the 53 people who died in the back of a tractor-trailer on June 27th.
A Mexican air force plane has landed at an airport near Mexico City bearing eight bodies of the 53 migrants who were found dead in a truck in Texas last month.
In the aftermath of the human smuggling operation that left 53 people dead, sheriff Javier Salazar joined Leading SA to discuss issues in and around Bexar County.
In the days following the migrant tragedy on Quintana Rd. San Antonio Fire Department is caring for the first responders who responded to that scene.
The Dilley Police Department allowed KSAT 12 to ride along as they attempted to intercept human smuggling operations in and around their city.
Dilley police are dealing with a massive increase in the number of chases and human smuggling incidents over the past few months and say they would be overwhelmed without the help of Operation Lone Star.
A 15-year-old boy accused in a human smuggling operation out of Kinney County was shot on Monday and is recovering in a San Antonio hospital.
With three high-profile human smuggling cases in Bexar County in as many weeks, KSAT sat down with Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Jeffrey Ryan to talk about where San Antonio falls in the smuggling pipeline.
All seven suspects were drivers or passengers of vehicles stopped by Bexar County Sheriff’s investigators Thursday afternoon after they left a property in the 11200 block of Briggs Road, where a neighbor had reported seeing 50 people exit a tractor trailer.
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Border Patrol officials say the ongoing influx of undocumented immigrants at the border and a continued crackdown on big rig smuggling have led human smugglers to recruit teenage drivers on social media.
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Houston police say they have found dozens of people inside a Southwest Houston home in a possible case of human smuggling.
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Towing companies say they're losing money towing a high number of vehicles involved in suspected human smuggling cases in rural Texas counties.
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SAN ANTONIO – One person has been taken into custody in connection with a suspected human smuggling case after several disturbing 911 calls were made to authorities on Monday night, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Friday. And so, it was right at the border of unincorporated Bexar County in San Antonio. And so, we were getting calls,” Sheriff Salazar said Wednesday. The sheriff said there might be another clue that it may be a human smuggling operation. RELATED: 911 calls could be connected to human smuggling operation in Bexar County
SAN ANTONIO – Disturbing 911 calls received by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office could be connected to a human smuggling operation, Sheriff Javier Salazar said. And so, it was right at the border of unincorporated Bexar County in San Antonio. I know the San Antonio Police Department was also getting calls around the same time. BCSO obtained surveillance video from a trucking company located near Interstate 35 and Fischer Road. Salazar said BCSO is working closely with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Homeland Security Investigations and the San Antonio Police Department.
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