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Guatemaltec nationals who are charged with us due to the operation of the human smuggling ring

Guatemaltec nationals who are charged with us due to the operation of the human smuggling ring

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Four men were accused of having carried out a criminal organization that supposedly smuggled thousands of people without legal status from Guatemala to the United States over five years, the federal authorities announced on Monday.

The reigning US lawyer Joseph McNally described the criminal network “one of the greatest human smuggling rings in the nation” during a press conference on Monday. The public prosecutor claimed that the organization had transported around 20,000 people to Los Angeles and Phoenix from 2019 to July 2024.

The organization is also accused of having kept some of the immigrants hostage in hiding plants, and according to the prosecutors for the death of seven human-theirs is a 4-year child responsible, which were killed in Oklahoma in a car accident in November 2023.

All four defendants were identified as Guatemaltec nationals who lived in neighborhoods in Los Angeles in the areas of Westlake, Downtown Los Angeles and South Los Angeles. They were all at the time of the alleged crimes without legal permission in the country, the prosecutors said.

The four defendants were charged with a conspiracy to illegally bring people to the USA, illegally transport people in the United States and to lead people without legal status in the USA for private financial gain and death. The accused are faced with a maximum prison sentence or life sentence if they are convicted of all charges.

“These smuggling organizations have no consideration of human life and their behavioral murder,” said McNally in a statement. “Your members issue a danger to the public and law enforcement … The indictment and arrests here have broken down one of the country's largest and most dangerous smuggling organizations.”

“Specialized in the smuggling of illegal immigrants”

The prosecutors said that the authorities had arrested two suspected leaders of the criminal organization in Los Angeles on Friday, and a judge ordered them to capture without bond. Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul, known as the “Turko”, and his alleged right-hander, Cristobal Mejia-Chaj, both did not think and should be on trial on April 22.

According to an indictment not sealed on Friday, the prosecutors Renoj-Matul named the leader of the criminal network. The organization allegedly operated at least a dozen years and “specialized in the smuggling of illegal immigrants from Guatemala to the United States … and the salvage, covering and shielding of illegal immigrants”.

The indictment claimed that Renoj-Matual was supported by employees in Guatemala, the people by payments between 15,000 and 18,000 US

The public prosecutor added that Mexican smuggling organizations transported immigrants through Mexico and across the border between the USA and Mexico to Arizona, where people were held in hiding places before they were picked up by Renoj-Matuls Lieutenants.

The immigrants were transported for an additional fee and, according to the prosecutors, were drawn to various locations in the country such as Los Angeles and Phoenix. Some immigrants who could not pay the fees were held hostage in a Stash house in the Westlake district, the prosecutors said.

“Renoj-Matul pointed out that the transport of the proceeds from the human smuggling from Los Angeles to Phoenix was transported, where they were handed over to the Mexican smuggling organization to pay the expenses that arise from the transnational criminal organization of Renoj-Matul,” according to the public prosecutor.

The indictment also claimed that Renoj-Matul and Mejia-Chaj kept two victims hostage from April 2024 to July 2024 and threatened to kill the victims until third parties paid for their release. According to the prosecutors, the two were also charged as a hostage -taking.

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Charge: The man threatened to cut off the head of an officer

The prosecutors also accuse Helmer Obispo-Hernandez, also known as “Xavi” and Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj. Obispo Hernandez was identified as another lieutenant in the criminal organization and is considered in Guatemala.

According to the prosecutors, OBISPO Hernandez is charged with a separate law enforcement complaint for law enforcement complaints. The indictment accuses Obispo-Hernandez, “threatens to” cut off the heads of Homeland Security Investigations Task Force Officer and members of his family “.

Obispo Hernandez allegedly made these threats on Friday, while search command was executed in his residence, the prosecutors said.

In the meantime, Paxtor-Oxlaj is currently being held in Oklahoma in Oklahoma in Oklahoma because of his participation in the fatal car accident, according to the prosecutors.

“In November 2023, Paxtor-Oxlaj in Elk City, Oklahoma, caused a car accident while he smuggled illegal immigrants from New York to Los Angeles,” said the prosecutors. “This car accident led to the death of seven people who were passengers in the vehicle that he drove. Of the seven people killed were three minors, including a 4-year-old child.”

Paxor-Oxlaj was arrested and accused of being an immigrant in the United States without legal status, according to the public prosecutor. He had previously been removed from the country in 2010 and had no legal permission to re -enter the United States

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The announcement on Monday is made in the middle of President Donald Trump's procedure against immigration, which includes a growing number of ice attacks across the country and the suspension of the CBP One app, which enabled migrants to apply for immigration dates.

After taking office on January 20, Trump almost immediately signed a flood of executive regulations associated with illegal immigration and refugee orders. The president also tries to end citizenship in contrast to the 14th change.

The president has repeatedly said that his government will prioritize the deportation of immigrants undocumented immigrants with crime stories. ICE has reported that it has arrested thousands of people since January 23, reported the USA before.

In the past few weeks, numerous demonstrations have appeared across the country, which are against Trump's immigration policy and other controversial actions.

Contribution: Natalie Neysa Alund and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today

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