On Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers arrested a guy near the border in Del Rio, Texas. They think he helped bring a 5-year-old girl into the U.S. from Mexico.
Texas DPS said that a trooper stopped a Dodge pickup truck in Del Rio after getting word that a guy carrying a child across the Rio Grande had been caught by border agents.
A representative for Texas DPS, Lt. Chris Olivarez, told Fox News that the 5-year-old girl who was taken across the border was put into the trunk of another smuggler’s car and taken to a hotel.
The troopers kept an eye on the pickup truck until they finally pulled it over and did a traffic stop.
During the stop, the police learned that the 5-year-old girl was from Mexico and had just been brought into the U.S. illegally. Another thing the trooper did was compare the girl in the pickup truck to a picture of her that was on surveillance video.
He talked to the girl in Spanish and pointed out the child’s bow, which could also be seen on the video.
Dolores Lopez, the girl’s mother, was also in the truck when it was pulled over.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said the mother is from Mexico and is currently living in North Carolina.
Lopez told the police that she found a group that smuggled people on the internet and agreed to pay $8,000 to have her daughter brought into the U.S. illegally.
In the end, the smuggler was caught. He was named as Roman Ibarra Rojo from Mexico. Rojo was accused of bringing someone under 18 years old into the country illegally.
Rojo told the Texas DPS that he was going to be paid $1,000 to bring the 5-year-old girl into the U.S. illegally.
Olivarez said Rojo had been caught for smuggling before, in 2022.
Lopez and her daughter were sent to the U.S. Border Patrol, who suggested that Lopez’s mother be charged with putting her kid in danger. It is up to the district attorney to decide if the mother should be charged.
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