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 woman into the U.S. from Mexico.
Texas DPS mentioned a trooper stopped a Dodge pickup truck in Del Rio after receiving info {that a} man was captured by border surveillance carrying a toddler throughout the Rio Grande.
Lt. Chris Olivarez, a spokesperson for Texas DPS, instructed Fox Information that the 5-year-old woman who was carried throughout the border was loaded into one other smuggler’s automobile and pushed to a resort.
Troopers saved an eye fixed on the pickup truck till they ultimately pulled the truck over and performed a site visitors cease.
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A 5-year-old woman was seen being carried throughout the U.S.-Mexico border close to Texas, earlier than she was loaded right into a truck and pushed away by one other smuggler, in keeping with Texas DPS. (Texas DPS)
Through the cease, troopers discovered the 5-year-old woman was from Mexico and had simply been smuggled into the U.S. The Trooper additionally matched the picture of the woman in surveillance footage to the woman within the pickup truck.
Whereas asking the woman questions in Spanish, he identified the teenager’s bow, which was additionally seen within the recorded footage.
The woman’s mom, Dolores Lopez, was additionally within the truck on the time of the site visitors cease.
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Roman Ibarra Rojo of Mexico was arrested for his alleged involvement in smuggling a 5-year-old throughout the border. (Texas DPS)
Texas DPS mentioned the mom is a brief resident of North Carolina and is initially from Mexico.
Lopez instructed troopers she situated a smuggling group on the web and agreed to have her daughter smuggled into the U.S. for $8,000.
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A 5-year-old woman was smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico after her mom allegedly paid $8,000 to a gaggle she discovered on-line. (Texas DPS)
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 mentioned Rojo confessed that he was going to be paid $1,000 to smuggle the 5-year-old woman into the U.S.
Olivarez mentioned Rojo was beforehand arrested in 2022 for smuggling.
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Lopez and her daughter had been referred to the U.S. Border Patrol with the advice of charging the mom with endangering her youngster. It is going to be as much as the district legal professional to resolve whether or not to prosecute the mom.
