Gustavo Castillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday January 28, 2023, p. eleven
A federal judge has linked six suspects involved in the deaths of 51 migrants to proceedings after they were abandoned in an unair-conditioned tractor-trailer in sweltering Texas heat in June of last year.
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) reported that the federal judge imposed informal preventive detention for four men and two women for their probable links with a truck located in the vicinity of Quintana Road, San Antonio, Texas, on June 27, 2022, where dozens of lifeless migrants were found, including women and children
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The federal Public Ministry reported that After completing the respective arrest warrants and taking them before the corresponding judge, he provided the evidence to obtain said link to the process against Melesio B, Hermelindo B, Adrián B, Yoana N, Sheyla B and Jessica P, for their probable responsibility in the crime of aggravated human trafficking
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According to information about what happened, the human traffickers took the vehicle in which the victims were located from Mexican territory to the United States and for this they crossed through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Laredo, Texas, which gave the first indications to look for them. .
US authorities discovered the migrants stranded in the San Antonio area when a municipal employee heard a cry for help from a truck parked on a lonely back road, according to information released last June by Police Chief William McManus.
