Following an ICE Homeland Security Investigations El Paso investigation, a local man was sentenced Jan. 28 to federal prison for his role in a cross-border tunnel smuggling conspiracy.
Oscar Ivan Carrillo, 20, of El Paso, received a 33-month sentence for smuggling illegal aliens through a tunnel connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso.
The HSI El Paso and U.S. Border Patrol investigation began in 2024, after intelligence revealed a sophisticated tunnel built by the La Nueva Empresa, an international drug cartel. The tunnel, which connected Ciudad Juarez to El Paso, ran under the Rio Grande and was equipped with electricity and ventilation…