Two illegal aliens were arrested in a truck with heavily tinted windows on Interstate 75 in Sumter County.
Raul De La O Gonzalez, 25, of Ocala, was driving the gray 2007 Ram 3500 pickup at about noon Wednesday southbound on I-75 near Bushnell when a trooper noticed he was not wearing a seatbelt and initiated a traffic stop, according to an arrest report from the Florida Highway Patrol. When asked for a driver’s license, De La O Gonzalez handed him a Mexican voter identification card. The trooper learned that De La O Gonzalez was wanted on a Marion County warrant charging him with driving without a license.
A passenger was identified as 31-year-old Alfredo Salguero Ferrer of Ocala. He had a New York driver’s license. He said that he knew De La O Gonzalez did not have a license and should not have been driving. Salguero Ferrer said De La O Gonzalez is his cousin.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol was contacted and an agent told the trooper that there were no records of the men legally entering the country. The agent said the men do not have legal status in the United States. Both men admitted they had hired “coyotes” to smuggle them into the United States. Both men have been in the country for several years.
A tint meter was used to test the passenger window, and it showed the window was too dark. The truck also had a cracked windshield…