Citizen’s call leads agents to 23 migrants at ‘party’ in alleged stash house
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Aug 2, 2024 / 04:23 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 2, 2024 / 04:23 PM CDT
Homeowners say Mexican acquaintance wanted to have party, sent 'guests' ahead but failed to show up
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A concerned citizen’s call to his local police department has led to the arrest of two alleged smugglers and the apprehension of 23 migrants in Arizona.
The Yuma Police Department received the call at 3:20 p.m. last Tuesday. The caller expressed concern after observing “six or seven individuals” getting out from under a tarp over the bed of a white Ford F-250 pickup on West 21st Street.
Yuma police responded to the neighbor’s concerns and later called for the assistance of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Anti-Smuggling Unit, which set up surveillance on a home in the 100 block of West 21st.
The agents found the truck and allegedly saw a “fake toolbox” – a feature often used by human smugglers to conceal undocumented migrants.
The agents saw a man exit the house and drive the truck away; they stopped him, and he admitted to being a foreign national with no legal basis to be in the United States, according to documents filed this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/citizens-call-leads-agents-to-23-migrants-at-party-in-alleged-stash-house/
