A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday after troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) discovered 25 illegal immigrants crammed into the back of a box truck, hiding behind mattresses and within a crawlspace.
Silvia Patricia Santamaria, 43, of Houston, was detained and charged with 25 counts of human smuggling, according to DPS. She was later put into the Live Oak County Jail.
On Wednesday, shortly after 9:30 a.m., a concerned civilian approached a DPS trooper at a truck stop along Interstate 37 in George West, Texas, to report a small crash in the parking lot…