U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the San Diego border crossing conducted a surprise sweep with a K-9. Once the dog alerted officers of a susp

A jury found 48-year-old Noel Mercado guilty of two counts of alien smuggling. Prosecutors said Mercado had people hidden in fake wheel wells and a gas tank. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 48-year-old Jonesboro, Arkansas man has been convicted of hiding four undocumented migrants and bringing them across the Texas-Mexico border.

A Corpus Christi jury convicted a 48-year-old man of smuggling four undocumented immigrants in his truck’s wheel wells and a gas tank. The jury found Noel Mercado guilty of two counts of human smuggling,

U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias, Texas checkpoint arrested a man for transporting migrants in the wheel well and fuel tank of a pickup truck.