Texas Division of Public Security (DPS) troopers arrested a person close to the border in Del Rio, Texas, on Friday for his alleged involvement in smuggling a 5-year-old lady into the US from Mexico.
Texas DPS stated a trooper stopped a Dodge pickup truck in Del Rio after receiving data {that a} man was captured by border surveillance carrying a baby throughout the Rio Grande.
Lt. Chris Olivarez, a spokesperson for Texas DPS, advised Fox Information that the 5-year-old lady who was carried throughout the border was loaded into one other smuggler’s automobile and pushed to a lodge.
Troopers saved a watch on the pickup truck till they finally pulled the truck over and carried out a visitors cease.
Throughout the cease, troopers discovered the 5-year-old lady was from Mexico and had simply been smuggled into the US.
The Trooper additionally matched the picture of the lady in surveillance footage to the lady within the pickup truck.
Whereas asking the lady questions in Spanish, he identified the teenager’s bow, which was additionally seen within the recorded footage.
The lady’s mom, Dolores Lopez, was additionally within the truck on the time of the visitors cease.
Texas DPS stated the mom is a short lived resident of North Carolina and is initially from Mexico.
Lopez advised troopers she positioned a smuggling group on the web and agreed to have her daughter smuggled into the US for $8,000.
Troopers finally arrested the smuggler, who was recognized as Roman Ibarra Rojo from Mexico. Rojo was charged with smuggling an individual youthful than 18 years previous.
Texas DPS stated Rojo confessed that he was going to be paid $1,000 to smuggle the 5-year-old lady into the US.
Olivarez stated Rojo was beforehand arrested in 2022 for smuggling.
Lopez and her daughter have been referred to the US Border Patrol with the advice of charging the mom with endangering her baby.
Will probably be as much as the district lawyer to resolve whether or not to prosecute the mom.
