Member of Human Smuggling Organization Pleads Guilty in Deadliest US Human-Smuggling Case
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Another individual has pleaded guilty for their involvement in an illegal human-smuggling operation that resulted in the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer, marking it as the deadliest human-smuggling event in U.S. history. According to court documents, Riley Covarrubias-Ponce, a 31-year-old Mexican national, was part of a human smuggling organization responsible for illegally transporting 66 adults and children from various Central American countries into the United States. Covarrubias-Ponce played a …