A man charged in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants being smuggled inside a tractor trailer in southwest San Antonio pled guilty on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Christian Martinez, 29, of Palestine, entered a plea of guilty to multiple counts in connection to the deadly tractor trailer smuggling incident.
Martinez and co-defendant Homero Zamorano Jr., 47, of Elkhart, the driver of the tractor trailer, were initially charged by indictment on July 20, 2022. The four additional defendants charged in the superseding indictment allegedly orchestrated the retrieval of an empty tractor-trailer and its corresponding handoff to the driver on June 27. Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat.
The indictment also alleges that Gonzalez-Ortega traveled to Laredo to meet the tractor-trailer, where at least 66 undocumented individuals, including eight children and one pregnant woman, were loaded for smuggling.
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