Tip leads Border Patrol to 14 individuals smuggled inside sleeper berth

This week, Border Patrol brokers in Texas put a cease to a human smuggling try after receiving a name a few suspicious tractor trailer.

The incident occurred on Wednesday, March 29, north of Laredo, Texas, in response to a information launch from US Border Patrol Laredo Sector.

Border Patrol brokers with the Laredo Sector acquired a name from a “involved citizen” a few semi truck presumably being utilized in a human smuggling operation.

Officers positioned and stopped the semi truck on I-35 close to mile marker 36.

When the truck got here to a cease, the truck driver fled into the comb.

Border Patrol searched the cab of the semi truck and found 14 individuals contained in the sleeper space.

Border Patrol says that the individuals discovered within the cab have been within the U.S. illegally from El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. All fourteen individuals have been taken into custody for processing.