U.S. Citizen Used Fake Mexican ID to Get Deported to Avoid Human Smuggling Prosecution

A U.S. citizen used a faux Mexican ID to get deported by federal authorities to keep away from prosecution following a human smuggling incident in December 2021. The now-convicted Texas-based smuggler is believed to have moved tons of of migrants illegally into the nation and funneled giant quantities of cash to cartel associates in Mexico throughout a two-year interval, prosecutors said.

This week, Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crave sentenced 27-year-old Derly Cresencio Medina to 9 years in jail and 48-year-old Jessica Dinora Pena Rodriguez to six and a half years for his or her function in coordinating dozens of human smuggling makes an attempt between August 2021 and February 2023. Both human smugglers had pleaded responsible to numerous expenses earlier this 12 months.

According to info offered to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, in December 2021, Medina picked up a gaggle of seven migrants on the banks of the Rio Grande. U.S. Border Patrol brokers arrested the group. Rather than face prosecution, Medina gave the brokers a faux Mexican ID and handed himself off as a migrant. Federal authorities fell for the ruse and deported him to Mexico. Medina returned hours later by means of a port of entry utilizing his actual identify.