Aug 12, 2:21 PM EDT


Alleged driver of SUV in which 9 died charged

PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal authorities have charged a 33-year-old man with driving a vehicle packed with suspected illegal immigrants that crashed last week southeast of Phoenix, killing nine people.

The driver and nine other passengers were hurt.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix says Brian Guzman Ochoa of Hermosillo, Mexico, knowingly transported and moved people who were in the United States illegally.

The complaint says at least two survivors identified Guzman and a man who died in the crash as guides who took the others from Agua Prieta, Mexico into the United States. Both witnesses said Guzman was the driver.

Guzman is due in federal court Tuesday afternoon. It wasn't immediately clear if he had a lawyer.



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