A Texas border man with links to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel will spend 20 years in prison for kidnapping two migrants and forcing their relatives to pay a ransom.
U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Miguel Angel Castillo, 23, to 20 years in federal prison. Castillo pleaded guilty in January 2021 to the charge of hostage-taking.
Court documents revealed that Castillo picked up two migrants from Guatemala at a parking lot in Rio Grande City, Texas. He took them to his home in Donna, Texas. Rio Grande City is a known smuggling corridor used by Mexico’s Gulf Cartel to move thousands of migrants into Texas for profit. Castillo got the help of two underage teens to guard the migrants in his house and would threaten the migrants with a handgun as he forced them to reach out to their relatives to request money for their release. Since Castillo was on federal probation, he is unable to legally own or possess a weapon.
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