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    Post Feds: Driver accused in immigrant deaths won't face death penalty

    IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING DEATHS: Feds won’t seek death penalty against truck driver accused in case


    Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera American-Statesman Staff

    Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a truck driver accused in the deaths of 10 unauthorized immigrants who were found inside a sweltering tractor trailer in San Antonio while making the journey into the U.S. in July.

    According to a U.S. Department of Justice news release Wednesday, a superseding indictment in the case adds new charges against 60-year-old James Matthew Bradley Jr., of Clearwater, Fla., who faces a sentence of up to life in prison.

    It also names a second suspect, 47-year-old Pedro Silva Segura, an unauthorized immigrant living in Laredo. Segura also faces a possible sentence of life in prison, but prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility of seeking the death penalty against him.

    Shortly after midnight on July 23, San Antonio police found the truck at a parking lot behind a Walmart store after an employee making the rounds was approached by someone from the truck asking for water, officials have said.

    Officers found Bradley sitting inside the cabin and 39 unauthorized immigrants standing and lying in the rear of the trailer, the news release said. Eight people found inside are believed to have died from heat exposure and asphyxiation, police have said. Thirty people were taken to the hospital, including two who later died.

    Authorities estimate that at one point there were between 70 and 200 people inside the truck.

    Bradley was arrested at the scene and remains in federal custody, officials said. Silva was arrested in Laredo on an unrelated charge and is awaiting to be taken to a San Antonio holding facility.

    Both men face charges of conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented aliens for financial gain resulting in death; conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented aliens for financial gain resulting in serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy; and transporting undocumented aliens resulting in serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy.

    In addition, Bradley faces charges of transportation of undocumented aliens resulting in death; transporting undocumented aliens resulting in serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy; and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

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    Shortly after midnight on July 23, San Antonio police found the truck at a parking lot behind a Walmart store after an employee making the rounds was approached by someone from the truck asking for water, officials have said.
    So the truck trailer wasn't locked and they could have gotten out at any time?
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    Second man charged in deaths of 10 immigrants in San Antonio

    By Jason Buch and Jacob Beltran
    September 20, 2017



    Photo: Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News James Matthew Bradley Jr.
    will not be facing the death penalty for his role in an alleged smuggling
    operation that killed 10 undocumented immigrants in July, federal
    officials announced Wednesday.

    Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged a second man in the July deaths of 10 immigrants who were smuggled in a tractor-trailer.

    Pedro Silva Segura, 47, who lives in Laredo and who federal officials said is in the country illegally, faces the the death penalty if convicted on charges of conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants for financial gain resulting in death and transporting undocumented immigrants resulting in death, prosecutors said in a news release.

    Prosecutors offered no information about Silva’s alleged role in the conspiracy to smuggle dozens of people in the tractor-trailer — at least one of the survivors told police there were up to 200 people crammed in the overheated container — and the new indictment wasn’t available Wednesday night.

    Federal officials had said they were investigating the broader smuggling network, of which the trailer’s driver, who was arrested at the scene, is accused of being a small part.

    Prosecutors did say they’re no longer seeking the death penalty against the driver, 60-year-old James Matthew Bradley Jr.

    Bradley was arrested early July 23 after police responded to a call in the parking lot of a South Side Walmart. There, they found 39 people, eight of whom already had perished and two of whom died later. Those who have been identified are all from Mexico and Guatemala.

    Investigators say many escaped with waiting smugglers.

    Silva was arrested the next day in Laredo, according to a complaint filed in a federal court there.

    An agent with the Homeland Security Investigations branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrote in the complaint that Silva was seen leaving a house in that border city, where investigators later found 18 undocumented immigrants.

    In Laredo, he faces up to 10 years in prison on one count of conspiracy to harbor immigrants and six counts of harboring immigrants for financial gain. He also faces 20 years in prison on a count of illegally re-entering the U.S.

    Along with the death penalty, Silva faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to transport immigrants resulting in bodily injury and transporting undocumented immigrants resulting in bodily injury. Prosecutors said he’ll be transferred to San Antonio to face charges here.

    Bradley still faces up to life in prison if convicted on similar charges of transporting immigrants resulting in death.

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    Death penalty needs to be completed within 30 days.

    No more decades of feeding and giving medial care off the BACKS of US taxpayers for these criminal vermin.

    Get it down swiftly.
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