AISD maintenance worker smuggled 500 immigrants through Austin
By Andy Jechow
Published: September 29, 2016, 5:11 pm
Updated: September 29, 2016, 5:50 pm
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Austin Independent School District maintenance worker and his wife who smuggled more than 500 undocumented immigrants into the United States from Mexico were sentenced to several years in prison, Thursday.
San Juana Valdez Menchaca, 54, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Her husband, 57-year-old Julian Perez Perez, the former AISD employee, was sentenced to 33 months. The couple pleaded guilty on July 7, 2016 to one count of conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens.
According to AISD records, Perez was employed with the district for around 20 years.
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