On August 21, Border Patrol agents, who are part of Operation Blazing Sands, caught a suspected human smuggler. The arrest happened at around 9 p.m. in Brawley, California.
A group of five immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally were loaded into a vehicle on Interstate 8 west of Yuma. Border Patrol agents pursued the vehicle and stopped it in Brawley. They arrested the driver and his passengers, and transported them to the Yuma Border Patrol station for processing.
On August 13, Border Patrol agents at Wellton Station in Arizona arrested a U.S. citizen for human smuggling. The arrest occurred while the agents were patrolling at Dome Valley.
The suspected human smuggler, a 34-year-old from Pomona, California, was driving a grey 2016 Hyundai Accent. Border Patrol agents operating near Avenue 26E and Old Highway 80 stopped the suspect’s vehicle. They found that his four passengers were Mexican nationals illegally present in the country.
According to CBP, human smuggling organizations normally use Dome Valley as an alternate route to avoid the immigration checkpoint on Interstate 8.
