EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — An El Paso woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling unaccompanied migrant children into the United States and allegedly using candy laced with THC to sedate the victims.
According to court documents, Dianne Guadian, 33, and three other members of a human smuggling organization brought unaccompanied migrant children, between the ages of 5 and 13, illegally into the United States from Juarez, sometimes using candy laced with THC to sedate them during smuggling events, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The drivers and their co-conspirators would then present U.S. documents to inspecting officers falsely claiming the documents belonged to the children, and that they were the parents of the children. Once inside the United States, the children were then transported to El Paso.
During one smuggling event, a child was taken to a local hospital and diagnosed with THC poisoning, the Justice Department said…