Earlier this month, authorities in Eureka, MO arrested 14 individuals suspected of being illegal aliens after all occupants of the vehicle were unable to provide proper paperwork nor could speak English while being questioned. On Thursday, nine of those individuals were indicted "for unlawful re-entry into the United States because they had each been previously deported."
Police officers pulled over a vehicle on August 2nd near the entrance to a Six Flags amusement park. The driver of the vehicle, 24-year-old Rene Flores-Calderon, and another passenger attempted to flee the scene immediately after being pulled over but were apprehended shortly thereafter. Flores-Calderon had supposedly been deported in 2016 but reentered the country sometime after that. In total, there were 14 men and one woman located inside the van.
According to Fox2News, "Flores-Calderon was charged with eight counts of human smuggling and faces up to 10 years imprisonment on each charge, and an additional 10 years on his own unlawful re-entry charge." The other eight indicted are all in their 20s or 30s and have all been previously deported.
(via Fox 2)
- Eladio Velasquez-Velasquez, 24, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Calexico, California earlier in 2018 to Mexico
- Elias Velasquez-Vleasquez, 30, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Brownsville, Texas in 2009 to Mexico
- Enrique Sebastian Cedillo-Santiago, 24, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Brownsville, Texas in 2017 to Guatemala
- Mynor Lucas Galvez-Galvez, 28, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Phoenix, Arizona in 2015 to Guatemala
- Jose David Hernandez-Salazar, 34, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Chandler, Arizona in 2007 to Honduras
- Aaron Danilo Rivera-Urbina, 29, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Phoenix, Arizona in 2016 to Honduras
- Carlos Joel Perez-Merino, 32, who is alleged to have been previously deported from Phoenix, Arizona earlier in 2018 to El Salvador
- Jose Danilo Balan-Boc, 21, who is alleged to have been previously deported earlier in 2018 to Guatemala