Nearly two dozen illegal aliens were apprehended last week in Arizona, along with two men who claimed they were hosting a house party and did not know who the ‘guests’ were, according to reports.
On July 23 at around 3:20 p.m., the Yuma Police Department (YPD) received a call from a local resident who said they had observed “six or seven individuals” emerge from under a tarp covering the back of a pickup truck after it parked at a nearby house.
YPD responded to the scene and a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Anti-Smuggling Unit was called to surveil the residence.
USBP agents stopped a man leaving the house in a truck with a “fake toolbox” — a false compartment often used to smuggle persons or drugs — and he admitted to being in the country illegally, according to Border Report, which reviewed documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Agents then approached the house and encountered two U.S. citizens identified as David Martinez and James Michael Torres, along with a third man who was also determined to be an illegal alien.
Martinez consented to a search of the property during which authorities located 22 more illegal aliens.
During questioning, Torres claimed he had met a man named Frank in Mexico who had asked him to host a “party.”
Torres told officials people began arriving in groups but claimed he was unaware they were illegal aliens.
Martinez offered a similar tale but apparently acknowledged that he was aware known human smugglers were dropping people off at his house.
Two illegals found at the residence told authorities they had crossed into Arizona from Mexico and were picked up by smugglers who dropped them off at the Yuma house.
A total of 23 illegals were brought to a Border Patrol facility for processing, while Torres and Martinez were arrested on charges of harboring illegal aliens.
An investigation and legal proceedings are ongoing.
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