Thread: Man caught transporting illegal aliens gets 13 months

Man caught transporting illegal immigrants gets 13 months

Posted: Jun 14, 2012 6:25 AM PDT Updated: Jun 14, 2012 6:43 AM PDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A U.S. District Court judge in Sioux City has sentenced a Californian for hauling illegal immigrants across the country.

The Sioux City Journal says (Man caught transporting illegal immigrants in Onawa, Iowa, gets 13 months : Sioux City Journal) 24-year-old Maurelio Diaz-Alfonso, of Riverside, Calif., had pleaded guilty in March. He was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 months in prison.

Diaz-Alfonso was arrested after a traffic stop on Interstate 29 near Onawa in western Iowa. A state trooper who pulled over the sport utility vehicle Diaz-Alfonso was driving searched it and found 12 people inside. They were illegal immigrants.

Diaz-Alfonso later told federal agents that he was paid to drive his passengers from Mesa, Ariz., to Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York.

Information from: Sioux City Journal, Sioux City Journal

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Man caught transporting illegal immigrants gets 13 months

Posted: Jun 14, 2012 6:25 AM PDT Updated: Jun 14, 2012 6:43 AM PDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A U.S. District Court judge in Sioux City has sentenced a Californian for hauling illegal immigrants across the country.

The Sioux City Journal says (Man caught transporting illegal immigrants in Onawa, Iowa, gets 13 months : Sioux City Journal) 24-year-old Maurelio Diaz-Alfonso, of Riverside, Calif., had pleaded guilty in March. He was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 months in prison.

Diaz-Alfonso was arrested after a traffic stop on Interstate 29 near Onawa in western Iowa. A state trooper who pulled over the sport utility vehicle Diaz-Alfonso was driving searched it and found 12 people inside. They were illegal immigrants.

Diaz-Alfonso later told federal agents that he was paid to drive his passengers from Mesa, Ariz., to Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York.

Information from: Sioux City Journal, Sioux City Journal

Man caught transporting illegal immigrants gets 13 months - FOX 10 News - Phoenix, AZ | KSAZ-TV

Just 13 months for smuggling illegals????????

Originally Posted by MW

Just 13 months for smuggling illegals????????

Sounds like he played "Lets Make A Deal".
He told them everything he knows about everyone he ever meet in exchange for a light sentence.
Now all he, has to worry about is someone from the cartels killing him.

Originally Posted by MW

Just 13 months for smuggling illegals????????

Someone just pointed out to me that this guy wasn't "SMUGGLING" illegal aliens,
he was TRANSPORTING illegal aliens.
The difference being that a smuggler takes them across the border and a transporter moves them from point A to point B without crossing a border and apparently the penalties are very different.

"Man caught transporting illegal immigrants gets 13 months"