EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A federal grand jury has charged four men in connection with an alleged conspiracy to drive dozens of migrants in a locked trailer several hundred miles to Houston.
Wednesday’s charges stem from an investigation started last month after authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas, received reports of vehicles converging around a semi-truck trailer parked in a business lot.
Border Patrol agents were first on the scene and watched as a green Chevrolet Tahoe dropped off passengers who went on to get inside the trailer, according to a criminal complaint filed April 5 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
The green Tahoe returned less than half an hour later to drop off more people. Homeland Security Investigations agents, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Maverick County Sheriff’s deputies mobilized and arrived in time to see multiple individuals take cover underneath the trailer and some trying to get into a hidden compartment, according to the complaint.