Rigoberto Román Mirnado Orozco is charged with six counts of migrant smuggling resulting in death or serious injury in the 2022 attempt that was the deadliest from the U.S. Mexico border.
U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
have climbed to more than a dozen and now stretch to Central America after years of investigations into the deadliest smuggling attempt from the U.S.-Mexico border.of seven people accused of helping smuggle the migrants. They included the alleged ringleader of a smuggling operation whose extradition has been requested by the United States, Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez told The Associated Press.
Jiménez said the arrests were made possible after 13 raids in three of the country’s departments. Police also seized vehicles and cash and rescued other migrants during the operations, Guatemalan officials said in a statement.
Migrants paid the organization up to $15,000 each to be taken across the border. The fee would cover up to three attempts to get into the country.
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