The United States secured custody of 29 defendants from Mexico facing charges for racketeering, drug-trafficking, murder, and other crimes, including leaders of cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG.
Raul Saucedo-Huipio, 49, was extradited from Mexico to the United States to face charges in the District of Arizona for operating an international alien smuggling conspiracy on the U.S.-Mexico border, facilitating travel of migrants from countries including Bangladesh, Yemen, Pakistan, and others.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Roxana Juarez-Balbastro, a 31-year-old Mexican fugitive wanted in Mexico for domestic violence, transporting her from the Eloy Detention Center to the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Phoenix officers arrested criminal alien Francisco Alexander Pablo-Antonio, 23, a Guatemalan national facing an outstanding criminal arrest warrant in New Mexico for criminal sexual communication with a child.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection thwarted an attempted smuggling incident with an unaccompanied alien child in Yuma when agents apprehended a woman trying to transport a 5-year-old boy into the country.
A Phoenix-area man was sentenced to 52 months in prison for his role in transporting two illegal aliens in March 2024, one of whom suffered fatal injuries after jumping out of the vehicle while it was moving.
U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling Ajo Highway near Three Points arrested a Cuban man for smuggling two illegal alien women on Easter Sunday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Area Port of San Luis discovered an alleged child smuggling attempt and arrested a woman after finding she had sedated a 5-year-old boy to evade detection during a border crossing attempt.
A woman from Mexico died after being ejected from a vehicle during a U.S. Border Patrol pursuit near Arivaca, Arizona. The vehicle, suspected of involvement in human smuggling, failed to yield and subsequently crashed.
Border Patrol agents from the Tucson Station apprehended a 40-year-old Mexican national near Sasabe, Arizona, who was found to have a prior rape conviction from California.
