EL PASO, Texas — A 20-year-old El Paso man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a cross-border tunnel smuggling operation tied to an international cartel.
Oscar Ivan Carrillo was sentenced on January 28 to 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to use a border tunnel to smuggle undocumented migrants from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso, Texas.
The investigation, led by ICE Homeland Security Investigations El Paso and the U.S. Border Patrol, began in 2024 after authorities uncovered intelligence about a sophisticated tunnel allegedly constructed by La Nueva Empresa, an international drug cartel…