Federal agents thwart human smuggling operation in north Phoenix, find 19 people in home

PHOENIX — Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant earlier in March and found 19 people in a north Phoenix home who had been illegally smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The residence that was subject to the search warrant for human smuggling on March 2 is located at 1535 West Desert Cove Avenue.

Investigators also arrested two “load drivers who also acted as caretakers of the residence” identified as Gabriel Garcia-Lopez and Alvaro Ojeda-Gomez, according to court records from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona…

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