Smuggler Pleads Guilty to Moving Migrants Through Cartel-Built Border Tunnel
Prosecutors said the network charged migrants up to $30,000 and was tied to Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion activities.
- On Friday, Mexican smuggler Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring migrants into the United States through a tunnel beneath the US-Mexico border.
- Built by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, the tunnel stretched roughly 1,000 feet from Ciudad Juarez-to-El Paso, connecting to public storm drains in Texas.
- Smugglers charged migrants up to $30,000 to navigate the underground route, directing them to exit points where they climbed into trucks through a concealed trap door.
- Davalos-Lopez faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, following his associate Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to provide material support to CJNG.
- Treating cartel smuggling as counterterrorism, the Trump administration's strategy is reflected in U.S. Attorney Justin Simmons's statement that convictions are "another nail in the coffin for these transnational criminal organizations.
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Smuggler Pleads Guilty to Bringing Migrants Through Tunnel Beneath U.S.-Mexico Border
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A 29-year-old Mexican pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to traffic undocumented immigrants into the United States through an underground tunnel linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, which connected Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) with El Paso (Texas), the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported. Mexican entry admits conspiracy to traffic migrants to the United States by tunnel linked to cartel was first published in Digital Process.
The Mexican was targeted by federal authorities after phone calls were intercepted between him and other people about the smuggling of immigrants
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