Photos: Altered hay bales used in Texas human smuggling attempt, sheriff says
by: Matt McGovern
Posted: May 21, 2025 / 04:36 PM CDT
Updated: May 21, 2025 / 04:36 PM CDT
FAYETTE COUNTY, Texas (KWKT) – Multiple people were found concealed in hay bales that had been altered in what Texas authorities are calling a “major human smuggling discovery.”
Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek said a deputy stopped a Ford F-250 pulling a gooseneck hay trailer loaded with round bales on Interstate 10 near Flatonia, about 90 miles east of San Antonio.
While Korenek did not say what prompted the Tuesday traffic stop, he said a close inspection of the hay bales revealed they had been “meticulously altered and hollowed out to create concealed compartments.”
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Within the bales, behind metal frameworks and layers of hay, authorities found “multiple undocumented individuals being smuggled in dangerously confined spaces.”
https://www.borderreport.com/regions/texas/photos-altered-hay-bales-used-in-texas-human-smuggling-attempt-sheriff-says/
