Agents probably didn’t expect the suspect to jump on his horse's back and giddy-up when they asked him to take the animal out of a trailer to be searched.
Danyelle Khmara Border agents probably didn’t expect the human-smuggling suspect to jump on his horse's back when they asked him to take the animal out of a trailer so they could search it.
Agents had already been notified about the 2012 Dodge Ram containing bundles of hay and towing a horse trailer. Surveillance technology had seen the truck loaded with hay turn onto La Osa Ranch Road in Sasabe and come out 40 minutes later with the hay bales still intact, says the document, filed in federal court in Tucson on Monday.People are also reading… Martinez, who said he lives in Willcox, told the agents he was coming from a ranch in Sasabe but didn’t know the ranch’s name.
Agents took the hay out of the trailer and found four people hidden in a compartment underneath. They found three more people in a concealed compartment under hay bales in the back of the truck. The seven people were all undocumented.
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