Octogenarian to plead guilty to migrant smuggling
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 4:34 AM EDT
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) - An attorney for an octogenarian immigrant smuggler says his client has agreed to plead guilty in San Diego to charges that she smuggled illegal immigrants.

Authorties say Felicitas Gurrola headed an organization that led up to 80 people month through the San Ysidro border crossing connecting San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, and eventually to the Los Angeles.

Attorney Thomas Matthews said Wednesday that Felicitas Gurrola de Mason has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to bring in illegal aliens for financial gain. A federal complaint in April says she was 84 years old at the time.

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