Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant earlier in March and discovered 19 people in a north Phoenix home who had been illegally smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border.
On March 2, a search warrant for human smuggling was issued for the residence at 1535 West Desert Cove Avenue.
According to court records from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, investigators also arrested two “load drivers who also acted as caretakers of the residence”: Gabriel Garcia-Lopez and Alvaro Ojeda-Gomez…