TX - At least 44 migrants found dead & 16 injured in a semi-truck in San Antonio, 27 June 2022 *arrests*

[cvaldez1975]

Oops...sorry I had the number of ID found wrong up above...sorry
34 victims have been "potentially" identified

Gosh, I still can't believe the driver was so high on meth that he needed to be hospitalized.
I also read late last night that he was still in the hospital.....This is why his arraignment was delayed
Was he so high that he couldn't drive anymore?
Were the armed men with him too?
Apparently there was also a small caravan of SUVs which arrived in the area around noon.
If truck also arrived around noon on Quintana Rd, why didn't someone just let the people out?
Was the guy so high, he didn't know they would die?
Why didn't someone let them out?

MOO: Sounds like a real criminal enterprise he's got going on.
Was he so high on meth because he's been taking trip after trip non-stop?

Effort to identify San Antonio migrant death victims 'slow, tedious, sad,' officials say

Dozens of migrants were found dead in an abandoned big rig in San Antonio on Monday in what appears to be the deadliest human smuggling case in modern U.S. history.

www.nbcnews.com

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Adding to the post from a paywall article:
As of Tuesday evening, Bexar County spokesman told USA TODAY there were 34 “potential IDs” among the victims

MOO So maybe the ID is based on ID's that they are carrying? Which sometimes are false ID's.

Only a few counties in Texas have a medical examiner
The fact that they were found in San Antonio increased their chance of being identified. (Bexar County Medical Examiner)

53 migrants are dead in San Antonio. Identifying their remains won't be easy.

Identifying victims may be a complicated process because multiple countries are involved and families of migrants may not come forward.

www.usatoday.com

they dont let them out because they have to work for them to repay them for transporting them (often times they already paid but they extort them for more)

 

[cvaldez1975]

Source: Smugglers exploited shift change at checkpoint to evade detection

Smugglers who drove a tractor-trailer to San Antonio with dozens of dead or dying migrants inside timed its passage to take advantage of shift change.

www.expressnews.com

‘I have too many bodies here’: Details from the scene of deadly human-smuggling incident in San Antonio

Homero Zamorano Jr., 45, who later tried to pass himself off as one of the immigrants he was smuggling, makes his first court appearance in San Antonio federal court.

www.expressnews.com

It appears the migrants were mostly likely in stash house(s) in Laredo prior to getting on the truck.
I had no idea that this was "a thing" until this
I knew that during the Uvalde shooting the Border Patrol arrived from Del Rio after clearing out stash houses, but I just assumed they were stashing drugs...

Also several of the migrants had texted that they were in Laredo and were awaiting transportation.

12:44 p.m.: Martinez sent Zamorano GPS coordinates that led to an address in Laredo.

watch the movie "end of watch" it shows HT undocumented folks in a stash house. (among other things)

 

[cvaldez1975]

Martinez Federal Complaint | PDF | Emigration, Immigration, and Refugees | U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement

Federal criminal complaint filed this week in connection with the investigation into the dozen of deaths of migrants found in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio.

www.scribd.com

from document - "MARTINEZ said the driver was unaware the airconditioning unit stopped working and was the reason why the individuals died. "

sigh that was what i was thinking.

 

[Bushnell]

Death toll has now risen to 46

https://twitter.com/x/status/1541614381770964994

the Media should be charged with murder

 

[cvaldez1975]

the Media should be charged with murder

???

 

[Eli9]

2/27/24

Fourth defendant pleads guilty in fatal tractor-trailer smuggling case following HSI San Antonio, federal, state partner investigation

Luis Alberto Rivera-Leal aka Cowboy, 38, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to one count of conspiracy to transport noncitizens placing lives in jeopardy.

www.ice.gov

The fourth defendant in a deadly tractor-trailer smuggling case pleaded guilty to a charge related to his involvement in the organization responsible for smuggling at least 66 migrants in June 2022 that resulted in the deaths of 47 adults and six children. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with the assistance of various federal and state law enforcement agencies in South Texas, is investigating the case.
Luis Alberto Rivera-Leal aka Cowboy, 38, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to one count of conspiracy to transport noncitizens placing lives in jeopardy. He faces up to 20 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine the sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.