EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A truck driver has been federally charged in connection with the death of a migrant when two semis collided on Interstate 10 near Tucson, Arizona.
The Sept. 9 charge of transportation of illegal aliens resulting in death stems from a July 24 incident in which a tractor-trailer driven by Moises Gabriel Castillo, a U.S. citizen, allegedly plowed into the back of another truck.
Court records show Arizona state troopers responding to the scene found an unresponsive male lying face down on the ground near the passenger side of Castillo’s truck. First responders pronounced the man dead on the scene. Authorities later identified him by the initials of A.E.H., a Mexican national with no legal authorization to be in the United States.
Castillo and three undocumented migrants also found at the scene were transported to Tucson-area hospitals due to injuries. The truck Castillo allegedly struck suffered damage only in the rear and there’s no record of the driver or any passengers needing medical care.