Border Agents Intercept Smugglers Using Cloned FedEx Vans to Transport Illegal Immigrants in El Paso
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In an audacious attempt to elude law enforcement, smugglers have resorted to using cloned FedEx vehicles to transport illegal immigrants through El Paso’s Upper Valley, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported.
Authorities at the Santa Teresa Station Anti-Smuggling Unit in El Paso received “credible information” regarding a smuggling scheme using fake FedEx trucks.
Agents and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety stopped three vehicles on Friday night; two were cloned white FedEx vans. They found 26 migrants from Mexico and Guatemala, and four smugglers, two from the US and two from Mexico, FOX 5 reported.
Express Consequence Delivery!#SantaTeresa Station Anti-Smuggling Unit agents along with @TxDPSWest intercepted a smuggling scheme involving 26 smuggled migrants.
