Mexican man pleads guilty to smuggling
Express-News
A Mexican national who was part of a police chase and deadly rollover accident this month that killed three immigrants among the 20 passengers in a cramped Ford Excursion pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to smuggling charges.
In the plea, accepted by U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela A. Mathy, Javier Ramirez-Garcia acknowledged that he and another guide led 17 other immigrants through the brush and over the Mexican border — at the cost of $2,500 per head.
Ramirez later was a passenger with the immigrants in the Excursion, allegedly driven by Wilberto Calderon-Yero, which led police on a 100-mile chase. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA072507.2B.smuggling.aa9d20e2.html
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