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Posted by Sean Kimmons
Jan 10th, 2012

Two alleged human traffickers were nabbed after Buda police pulled over their vehicle, where they were hiding three illegal immigrants, court records show.

A Buda police officer driving north on Interstate 35 made the traffic stop Dec. 20 after he spotted a white Chevrolet pickup covered heavily in mud and dust, making its rear license plate unreadable, an arrest affidavit says.

Once the truck had stopped, Officer Lucas Lysek spoke to the vehicle’s driver, Fermin Rubio, and his front passenger, Robert Trevino, both from Carrizo Springs near the Mexican border. While talking, the officer noticed a person lying in the backseat area of the truck. Trevino told the officer that three immigrants, who were concealed in the back, ordered him to drive them to Dallas, the affidavit says.


Fermin Rubio


Robert Trevino

Hays County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Manuel Delarosa came on scene to speak to the immigrants, who said that they paid Rubio $100 for the ride. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was called out and interviewed all five suspects. He determined that Rubio and Trevino picked up the three men from a Carrizo Springs home used for smuggling people, and were transporting them to another safe house in Dallas in exchange for labor or money, says the affidavit, written by Lysek.

Rubio, 18, and Trevino, 19, were arrested for human trafficking, a second-degree felony, and bailed out of jail the same day on $10,000 bonds, jail records show.

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