Filed Under:  Crime, Human Smuggling, Mcallen

Two Charged in Human Smuggling Scheme

August 3rd 2012   ·   5 Comments

McALLEN – Federal prosecutors have filed charges against two men in connection with the raid of a stash house Wednesday in north of Edinburg.

Agents found 23 illegal immigrants at a home on the 7700 block of Doolitle Road. Officials said the living conditions at the stash house were inhumane.

Officials said Jimmy Geovanni de Leon Gonzalez, 31, of Guatemala, and Edwin Daniel Cruz Ortiz, 18, of Mexico, were charged with immigrant smuggling.

Court records show that agents launched an investigation on July 22 into the alleged human smuggling operation. Border Patrol agents questioned two people they took into custody and were tipped off to a Jeep Grand Cherokee that was being used in the smuggling operation.

According to court records, agents set up surveillance and found the vehicle. They got consent to search the house and found the immigrants inside.

Records show Cruz said he got paid $15 per person to feed the immigrants and clean the house.

 

A version of this column originally appeared in www.krgv.com.

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Readers Comments (5)

  1. Gail Burke says:
    August 3, 2012 at 10:47 pm

    oh dear

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  2. Anthony J. Sacco says:
    August 3, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    Said it before and I’ll say it again. We need to round up, arrest, and deport all illegals. Doesn’t matter what race, color, creed, they are; they’re all lawbreakers and they are an incredible burden and devisive force in the United States of America.

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  3. Richard Brannon says:
    August 3, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    Yes ,yes ,yes.. Obama included … Illegal.

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  4. Ray Pini says:
    August 3, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    …so, what if the mexican gov’t caught you or I smuggling white folk into mexico… huh? WE’D NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN…

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  5. Debbie Allen Kimlinger says:
    August 5, 2012 at 12:51 am

    most of it a bunch of lies to me.the real truth gets so out of hand.you only know what they want you to know

    Reply »




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