The Odessa American
MARFA, Texas — A clever smuggling scheme in Presidio County came to an abrupt end March 5 with the arrest of a Presidio man who had been using an ambulance service to transport illegal immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint, a news release said.
Lionel Armendariz-Cabezuela, 38, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following a six-month investigation by the Border Patrol and ICE.
Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Marfa Sector had received a report that a person had feigned an illness in order to be transported to the Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine from Presidio. The trip includes passing through the Border Patrol Checkpoint south of Marfa, according to the release.
Full Story: Illegal aliens were coached in how to call for ambulance service and then fake an illness