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Trucker charged with transporting illegal immigrants
7/30/09
7/30/09
A California truck driver is charged with transporting undocumented immigrants inside a refrigerated tractor trailer in southern Arizona.
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers say they found 97 people inside the truck. Luis Antonio Mendoza, 26, of Fresno Calif., faces federal charges related to the alleged smuggling.
He was pulled never near Rio Rico in southern Arizona near the Mexican border.
Mendoza told police he was transporting the group to Eloy, where they were to be transferred to another vehicle, according to information from the U.S. Attorney for Arizona’s office.
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